NHB Classic Plays
The Wild Duck
Ibsen'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 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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John Gabriel Borkman (National Theatre version)
By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Nicholas WrightNicholas Wright's sensitive version of Ibsen's late play, about a family brought low by the disgrace and imprisonment of its patriarch.
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Mary Stuart
By Friedrich Schiller Translated by Jeremy SamsSchiller's grand historical tragedy, a battle of wits between Mary Queen of Scots and her captor, Queen Elizabeth I.
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£9.99£7.99Much Ado About Nothing (West End edition)
A consummate romantic comedy that dramatises the battle of the sexes with a dazzling display of Shakespeare's wit and wordplay.
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Naked
By Luigi Pirandello Adapted by Nicholas WrightPirandello's ingenious detective story about a young woman who is hounded by the press after the death of a child in her care..
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The City Madam (RSC edition)
A waspish city comedy attacking the vices of hypocrisy, greed, self-indulgence and social pretension.
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The Machine Wreckers
By Ernst Toller Translated by Ashley DukesA classic of German expressionism by an active revolutionary who was also an accomplished poet and playwright.
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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 UbuUncle 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 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 Cherry Orchard
By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen MulrineChekhov's classic tragicomedy, translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.
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£4.99£3.99The 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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