Classic Drama
This section contains titles labelled Classic Drama (pre-1945) and Ancient Classic Drama.
Romeo and Juliet
An edition of the play in the Shakespeare Folios series - offering the absolute authenticity of the First Folio in a totally accessible form.
- Paperback
£12.99£10.39There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
Life is a Dream (Donmar Warehouse version)
A classic from the Spanish Golden Age, Calderón's richly poetic, epic masterpiece explores illusion, reality, fate and destiny against the backdrop of a mythical Polish kingdom.
- Paperback
£12.99£10.39
Medea (Northern Broadsides version)
Euripides' tragedy, reworked by poet Tom Paulin into lithe and sinewy modern English.
- Paperback
£9.99£7.99
London Assurance
A classic comedy of manners with two of the great comic roles of the English stage, published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
- Paperback
£3.99£3.19
Salome
The savage power of ancient myth collides with twentieth-century decadence in Oscar Wilde's astonishing tragedy.
- Paperback
£10.99£8.79
Spring Awakening
Frank Wedekind's famously banned German play about adolescent sexuality.
- Paperback
£4.99£3.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£4.99£3.99The Master Builder
By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by David EdgarAn enthralling version of an unforgettable Ibsen classic.
- Paperback
£10.99£8.79
Ivanov
By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen MulrineChekhov's compelling early play, set in a country weighed down by political, ideological and spiritual stagnation. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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£4.50£3.60Add to basketEbook£4.50£3.60Yerma
By Federico García Lorca Translated by Jo CliffordLorca's tale of an impassioned, childless woman who is driven by madness to commit a heinous crime. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
- Paperback
£4.50£3.60There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£4.99£3.99Flare Path
A moving story of love and loyalty, courage and fear, based on Terence Rattigan's own experiences as a tail gunner in the Second World War.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£14.99£11.99The School for Husbands & The Imaginary Cuckold, or Sganarelle
Translated by Richard WilburEnglish verse translations of Molière's two great comedies of marriage and misunderstanding.
- Paperback£18.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
Lovers' Quarrels
Translated by Richard WilburAn English verse translation of Molière's second verse comedy, featuring a heroine masquerading as a man, yet unable to evade Cupid.
- Paperback£18.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
The Bungler
Translated by Richard WilburAn English verse translation of Molière's first great play.
- Paperback£18.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
Amphitryon
Translated by Richard WilburMolière's Amphitryon is based on a play by Plautus. In Molière's version, Jupiter's love affairs allude to those of the French king.
- Paperback£18.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
The Winter's Tale
By William Shakespeare Edited by Nick de SomogyiAn edition of the play in the Shakespeare Folios series - offering the absolute authenticity of the First Folio in a totally accessible form.
- Paperback
£12.99£10.39There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
Cardenio
Shakespeare's 'lost play' re-imagined
Set in the heat and dust of Andalusia in seventeenth-century Spain, Cardenio is the story of a friendship betrayed, with all the elements of a thriller: disguise, dishonour and deceit.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79The City Madam (RSC edition)
A waspish city comedy attacking the vices of hypocrisy, greed, self-indulgence and social pretension.
- Paperback
£9.99£7.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
The League of Youth
By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Andy BarrettIbsen's political comedy, in a crisp and satirical version by Andy Barrett.
- Paperback
£9.99£7.99
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