NHB Classic Plays

A classic Restoration comedy by one of the earliest and most celebrated female playwrights. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

The Rolls-Royce of English comedies, exploring corruption and morality, and bringing an act of political sin into the heart of the English home.

The first great 'resistance' drama - and perhaps the definitive Greek tragedy.

The 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.

Atreus, Agamemnon's father, takes revenge on his brother Thyestes by murdering Thyestes' sons and serving their flesh up for their father's dinner.

A classically bawdy Restoration Comedy, widely regarded as one of the filthiest and funniest plays ever written.

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

A city comedy complete with cross-dressing and disguise, dating from around 1605.

A sensational dramatisation of the seventeenth-century witch trials, first performed at the original Globe Theatre in 1634.

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

A sparkling translation of Ibsen's penultimate play.

Lessing's 18th-century masterpiece, a passionate plea for religious tolerance.

Nicholas 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.

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.

A chillingly grotesque farce set in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution.

Caryl Churchill's spare and resonant version of Strindberg's enigmatic masterpiece.

A biting satire on the morals of Victorian society, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

A black comedy about a question that haunts us today - what to do about an ageing population.