NHB Classic Plays
The Rover
A classic Restoration comedy by one of the earliest and most celebrated female playwrights. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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By Oscar WildeThe Rolls-Royce of English comedies, exploring corruption and morality, and bringing an act of political sin into the heart of the English home.
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Antigone
By Sophocles Translated by Marianne McDonaldThe first great 'resistance' drama - and perhaps the definitive Greek tragedy.
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By Frank Wedekind Adapted by Nicholas WrightThe first version of Wedekind's celebrated erotic masterpiece to be based on the author's original text, restoring the clarity, the daring and the sexual explicitness of a modern masterpiece written a hundred years before its time.
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Thyestes
By Seneca Translated by Caryl ChurchillAtreus, Agamemnon's father, takes revenge on his brother Thyestes by murdering Thyestes' sons and serving their flesh up for their father's dinner.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99The Country Wife
A classically bawdy Restoration Comedy, widely regarded as one of the filthiest and funniest plays ever written.
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£4.99£3.99Add to basketEbook£4.99£3.99Ghosts
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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The Wise Woman of Hoxton
A city comedy complete with cross-dressing and disguise, dating from around 1605.
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The Witches of Lancashire
By Thomas Heywood and Richard BromeA sensational dramatisation of the seventeenth-century witch trials, first performed at the original Globe Theatre in 1634.
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'Tis Pity She's a Whore
By John FordA classic tragedy of incestuous love between brother and sister. Published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Stephen MulrineA sparkling translation of Ibsen's penultimate play.
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Nathan the Wise
By Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Translated by Edward KempLessing's 18th-century masterpiece, a passionate plea for religious tolerance.
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By Anton Chekhov Translated by Nicholas WrightNicholas Wright's version of Chekhov's masterpiece, in which four young people are left stranded in a provincial backwater following the death of their father.
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Women of Troy
By Euripides Translated by Kenneth McLeishEuripides' great tragedy, covering themes of religious scepticism, the injustices within roles for women and the destructive power of war. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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The Mandate
By Nikolai Erdman Adapted by Declan DonnellanA chillingly grotesque farce set in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution.
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A Dream Play
By August Strindberg Adapted by Caryl ChurchillCaryl Churchill's spare and resonant version of Strindberg's enigmatic masterpiece.
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By Oscar WildeA biting satire on the morals of Victorian society, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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A New Way to Please You (or The Old Law)
By Thomas Middleton and William RowleyA black comedy about a question that haunts us today - what to do about an ageing population.
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