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.
Scapino
A superlative farce by the master of the form, Molière, written at the height of his powers, a masterclass in comic construction. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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A Woman of No Importance
Oscar Wilde's audacious drama of social scandal centres around the revelation of a long-concealed secret. 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.
Faust Parts 1 & 2
A 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£4.79The Beggar's Opera
By John GayJohn Gay's bawdy and burlesque pastiche of classical Italian opera, often regarded as the world's first ever musical.
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£3.99£3.19
The Wild Duck
By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Stephen MulrineIbsen's masterpiece of modern tragicomedy, in an English translation by Stephen Mulrine. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
- Paperback
£3.99£3.19Add to basketEbook£3.99£3.19Summerfolk
By Maxim Gorky Translated by Stephen MulrineGorky's magnificent play about the Russian bourgeois social class and the changes occurring around them in the middle of the first decade of the twentieth century. 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£3.19The Man of Mode
The best comedy of manners written in England before Congreve. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
- Paperback
£4.99£3.99
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
A delightfully lewd city comedy by the co-author of The Changeling.
- Paperback
£3.99£3.19
The Oresteia
Aeschylus' great trilogy of Greek tragedies: Agamemnon, Choephori (Libation-Bearers) and Eumenides (The Furies).
- Paperback
£3.99£3.19
The 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
La Ronde
Schnitzler's famous 'daisy-chain' play of sexual coupling, set in Vienna in the 1890s. In the Drama Classics series.
- Paperback
£4.99£3.99Add to basketEbook£4.99£3.99Blood Wedding
By Federico García Lorca Translated by Jo CliffordGarcía Lorca's passionate, lyrical tale of longing and revenge: a twentieth century masterpiece.
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£4.99£3.99Add to basketEbook£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£3.99London 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
Spring Awakening
Frank Wedekind's famously banned German play about adolescent sexuality.
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£4.99£3.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£4.99£3.99Ivanov
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.
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£4.50£3.60There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£4.99£3.99A Woman Killed with Kindness
By Thomas Heywood Edited by Trevor GriffithsA startling domestic thriller from the seventeenth century, one of the first tragedies ever to be written about ordinary people. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
- Paperback
£4.50£3.60
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