TEMPORARY ORDER DELAYS

We’re currently experiencing temporary disruption to the availability of some titles as we move all of our books to a new warehouse, which means it may take longer than normal for your order to reach you. Click here for more information.

Nick Hern Books

NHB Classic Plays

Showing 19-36 of 133 items.
All God's Chillun Got Wings

All God's Chillun Got Wings

By Eugene O'Neill

An expressionist play about a violently dysfunctional mixed-race marriage, inspired by an old Negro spiritual.

Published in volume The Hairy Ape & All God's Chillun Got Wings
    Desire Under the Elms

    Desire Under the Elms

    By Eugene O'Neill

    A story of greed, yearning and murder with incest and infanticide, and edged with echoes of Ancient Greek tragedy within a New England farming family.

    Published in volume Desire Under the Elms & The Great God Brown
      The Emperor Jones

      The Emperor Jones

      By Eugene O'Neill

      An expressionistic chronicle of a black dictator's flight from his oppressed subjects.

      Published in volume Anna Christie & The Emperor Jones: two plays
        The Great God Brown

        The Great God Brown

        By Eugene O'Neill

        A demonstration of O'Neill's expressionistic experimentation with masks to emphasise the distinction between characters, and the lack of understanding in human relationships.

        Published in volume Desire Under the Elms & The Great God Brown
          The Hairy Ape

          The Hairy Ape

          By Eugene O'Neill

          A nightmarish condemnation of the dehumanising effects of industrialisation on the American people.

          Published in volume The Hairy Ape & All God's Chillun Got Wings
            The White Devil

            The White Devil

            By John Webster

            The Italian Court is riddled with corruption in this classic Jacobean tragedy. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

            The Wild Duck

            The Wild Duck

            By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Stephen Mulrine

            Ibsen's masterpiece of modern tragicomedy, in an English translation by Stephen Mulrine. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

            Women of Troy

            Women of Troy

            By Euripides Translated by Kenneth McLeish

            Euripides' 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.

            • Paperback£3.99 £3.19
              There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
            Three Sisters

            Three Sisters

            By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen Mulrine

            Chekhov's masterpiece of provincial claustrophobia, translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.

            • Paperback£4.50 £3.60
              There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
            • Ebook£4.99 £3.99
              Add to basket
            The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd

            The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd

            By D H Lawrence Introduction by Colin Counsell

            An intense and powerful drama set in a Nottinghamshire mining town. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

            A Woman Killed with Kindness

            A Woman Killed with Kindness

            By Thomas Heywood Edited by Trevor Griffiths

            A 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.

            Yerma

            Yerma

            By Federico García Lorca Translated by Jo Clifford

            Lorca'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 £3.60
              There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
            • Ebook£4.99 £3.99
              Add to basket
            Ghosts

            Ghosts

            By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Stephen Mulrine

            An English version of Ibsen's great play, published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

            • Paperback£4.50 £3.60
              There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
            Spring Awakening

            Spring Awakening

            By Frank Wedekind Translated by Julian Forsyth and Margarete Forsyth

            Frank Wedekind's famously banned German play about adolescent sexuality.

            • Paperback£4.99 £3.99
              There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
            • Ebook£4.99 £3.99
              Add to basket
            'Tis Pity She's a Whore

            'Tis Pity She's a Whore

            By John Ford

            A classic tragedy of incestuous love between brother and sister. Published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

            • Paperback£4.99 £3.99
              There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
            • Ebook£4.99 £3.99
              Add to basket
            Ubu

            Ubu

            The Ubu Plays: King Ubu, Cuckold Ubu & Slave Ubu

            By Alfred Jarry Translated by Kenneth McLeish

            Alfred Jarry's trilogy of plays about the comically grotesque character of Pa Ubu, satirising power, greed, and bourgeois pretension.

            • Paperback£4.99 £3.99
              There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
            • Ebook£4.99 £3.99
              Add to basket
            Volpone

            Volpone

            By Ben Jonson

            Volpone is a Venetian aristocrat, a loveable rogue who enjoys the cunning pursuit of wealth more than money itself. Pretending to be mortally ill, he watches as his greedy neighbours swarm around him with expensive gifts in the hope of inheriting his fortune.

            The Way of the World

            The Way of the World

            By William Congreve

            A classic comedy of manners from the Restoration period. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

            • Paperback£4.99 £3.99
              There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
            Top Titles

            See our top titles for actors, teachers, directors and more...