NHB Classic Plays

A gripping historical tragedy, set in the time of the Roman Emperor Tiberius, about a man ruthlessly working his way to the top, destroying everyone in his path.

A Middle-Eastern leader comes out of hiding, and is hounded from state to state by the forces of the Roman Empire who threaten sanctions and ultimately war on anyone who harbours him.

García Lorca's blood-soaked story of doomed love, in a version by playwright Tanya Ronder.

Schiller's great tragedy transformed by Mike Poulton into an intense and gripping historical thriller.

A Jacobean gore-fest of enforced seduction and ultimate revenge. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Richard Eyre's high-profile adaptation of Ibsen's famous 'problem play' about a headstrong woman's determination to control those around her.

The incendiary story of Henry VIII's chancellor, Sir Thomas More, executed for failing to arrange Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

A sparkling translation of Ibsen's penultimate play.

A classic tragedy of incestuous love between brother and sister. 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.