NHB Classic Plays
An Ideal Husband
The 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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Lady Windermere's Fan
A biting satire on the morals of Victorian society, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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Three Sisters
Chekhov's masterpiece of provincial claustrophobia, translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.
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By D H Lawrence Introduction by Colin CounsellAn intense and powerful drama set in a Nottinghamshire mining town. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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£4.50£3.60Add to basketEbook£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.
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Yerma
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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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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Uncle Vanya
By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen MulrineChekhov's great play about an elderly professor whose plans to sell off his rural estate threaten the livelihoods of those who have worked tirelessly to keep the estate going.
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The White Devil
By John WebsterThe Italian Court is riddled with corruption in this classic Jacobean tragedy. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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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.
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£3.99£3.19Add to basketEbook£3.99£3.19Women 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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A Tragic Figure
By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen MulrineA comic duologue about a civil servant sweltering in Moscow coping with the incessant demands of his family from their summer dacha.
Published in volume Chekhov: ShortsKing Ubu
By Alfred JarryAlfred Jarry's surreal and hilarious satire of power, greed, and bourgeois pretension, the first of his three plays about the comically grotesque character of Pa Ubu.
Published in volume UbuCuckold Ubu
By Alfred JarryA sequel to King Ubu, Alfred Jarry's surreal and hilarious satire of power, greed, and bourgeois pretension. Cuckold Ubu continues the adventures of Pa Ubu.
Published in volume UbuSlave Ubu
By Alfred JarryThe third and final part of The Ubu Plays, Alfred Jarry's surreal and hilarious satire of power, greed, and bourgeois pretension. Slave Ubu concludes the adventures of Pa Ubu.
Published in volume UbuThe Wedding
By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen MulrineA one-act play by Chekhov in a translation by Chekhov expert Stephen Mulrine.
Published in volume Chekhov: ShortsThe Bear
By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen MulrineA one-act comic play about a reclusive young widow whose life takes a surprisingly romantic turn.
Published in volume Chekhov: ShortsThe Proposal
By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen MulrineA brilliantly funny one-act play about a hypochondriac attempting to propose to an argumentative young woman.
Published in volume Chekhov: Shorts
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