Drama Classics series
The world's great plays at a great little price
Each pocket-sized volume contains:
- a full introduction
- an author biography
- notes on historical and theatrical context
- a plot synopsis
- key dates
- a further reading list
- a glossary of unusual words and phrases (English-language texts)
The texts are presented uncut (with the exception of Faust, which is adapted for staging in a single evening) and uncluttered with footnotes; the translations are accurate and actable.
See also Drama Classic Collections.
Doctor Faustus
The classic story of the learned Doctor Faustus who sells his soul to the devil.
- Paperback
£4.99£3.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£4.99£3.99A Doll's House
By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Kenneth McLeishIbsen's revolutionary tale of a woman's awakening to her need for a life of her own.
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£4.99£3.99Add to basketEbook£4.99£3.99Don Juan
By Molière Translated by Kenneth McLeishMolière's comedy about the notorious womaniser, in a fresh and performable translation by Kenneth McLeish.
- Paperback
£3.99£3.19There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
The Duchess of Malfi
By John WebsterThe macabre Jacobean tragedy, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
- Paperback
£4.99£3.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
Edward II
The political tragedy of a King who indulges his passion and renounces his duties, and ultimately pays the price for forsaking his country.
- Paperback
£4.99£3.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
Electra
Euripides' version of the Ancient Greek myth of revenge on a murdering parent. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
- Paperback
£3.99£3.19
Electra
A tragic tale of duty, retribution and fate, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
- Paperback
£4.99£3.99Add to basketEbook£4.99£3.99An Enemy of the People
By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Stephen MulrineIbsen's play about an idealistic doctor whose moral resolve is put to the test when he discovers that the waters from which his native spa town draws its wealth are dangerously contaminated.
- Paperback
£4.50£3.60There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£4.99£3.99Faust Parts 1 & 2
By Johann Wolfgang Goethe Translated by John CliffordA fresh, performable version by John Clifford of Goethe's 'unstageable' masterpiece.
- Paperback
£5.99£4.79There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£5.99£4.79A Flea in Her Ear
By Georges Feydeau Translated by Kenneth McLeishA classic French farce of infidelity and mistaken identity. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
- Paperback
£3.99£3.19There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£4.99£3.99Fuente Ovejuna
By Lope de Vega Translated by Laurence BoswellA masterpiece by one of the greatest writers of the Spanish Golden Age, including one of the most memorable acts of resistance in world drama.
- Paperback
£4.99£3.99Add to basketEbook£4.99£3.99The Game Of Love And Chance
By Pierre Marivaux Translated by Stephen MulrineThe best known play by one of the most performed French playwrights - a sparkling 18th-century comedy of manners. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
- Paperback
£4.99£3.99
Ghosts
By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Stephen MulrineAn English version of Ibsen's great play, published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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£4.50£3.60There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
The Government Inspector
By Nikolai Gogol Translated by Stephen MulrineA classic satire of provincial bureaucracy, in an English translation by Stephen Mulrine. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
- Paperback
£4.99£3.99Add to basketEbook£4.99£3.99Hecuba
By Euripides Translated by Marianne McDonaldAn English translation of Euripides' classic tragedy, published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
- Paperback
£3.99£3.19There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£3.99£3.19Hedda Gabler
By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Kenneth McLeishAn English version of Henrik Ibsen's play Hedda Gabler, published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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£5.99£4.79Add to basketEbook£5.99£4.79The House of Bernarda Alba
By Federico García Lorca Translated by Jo CliffordLorca's extraordinarily powerful drama, the last he wrote before his assassination, explores the darkness at the heart of repression.
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£4.99£3.99Add to basketEbook£4.99£3.99The Hypochondriac
By Molière Translated by Martin SorrellMolière's classic farce in a fresh and performable translation. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
- Paperback
£3.99£3.19Add to basketEbook£4.99£3.99
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