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NHB Classic Plays

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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
    Anna Christie

    Anna Christie

    By Eugene O'Neill

    Eugene O’Neill’s epic Pulitzer Prize-winning play about love and forgiveness.

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    Antigone

    Antigone

    By Sophocles Translated by Marianne McDonald

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

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    Arden of Faversham

    Arden of Faversham

    By anonymous

    A domestic tragedy about a woman plotting to have her husband murdered, Arden of Faversham was first published in 1592. Its authorship is unknown, although suggestions include Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare.

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    Bacchae

    Bacchae

    By Euripides Translated by Kenneth McLeish and Frederic Raphael

    The story of revenge by the half-man, half-god Dionysos on Pentheus, King of Thebes, and all his people.

    The Bear

    The Bear

    By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen Mulrine

    A one-act comic play about a reclusive young widow whose life takes a surprisingly romantic turn.

    Published in volume Chekhov: Shorts
      Believe What You Will

      Believe What You Will

      By Philip Massinger

      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.

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      Blood Wedding

      Blood Wedding

      By Federico García Lorca Adapted by Tanya Ronder

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

      Blood Wedding

      Blood Wedding

      By Federico García Lorca Translated by Jo Clifford

      García Lorca's passionate, lyrical tale of longing and revenge: a twentieth century masterpiece.

      Cardenio

      Cardenio

      Shakespeare's 'lost play' re-imagined

      By William Shakespeare and John Fletcher Edited by Gregory Doran and Antonio Alamo

      Set in the heat and dust of Andalusia in seventeenth-century Spain, Cardenio is the story of a friendship betrayed, with all the elements of a thriller: disguise, dishonour and deceit.

      Chekhov: Four Plays

      Chekhov: Four Plays

      By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen Mulrine

      Anton Chekhov's four greatest plays in one volume - in sensitive, accurate and much-performed translations. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classic Collections series.

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      Chekhov: Shorts

      Chekhov: Shorts

      By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen Mulrine

      A collection of five of Anton Chekhov’s best-known short plays, in brand new English translations.

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      The Cherry Orchard

      The Cherry Orchard

      By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen Mulrine

      Chekhov's classic tragicomedy, translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.

      The City Madam

      The City Madam (RSC edition)

      By Philip Massinger

      A waspish city comedy attacking the vices of hypocrisy, greed, self-indulgence and social pretension.

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      The Country Wife

      The Country Wife

      By William Wycherley

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

      Creditors

      Creditors

      By August Strindberg Translated by Howard Brenton

      Passionate, dangerously funny, and enduringly perceptive, a wickedly enjoyable black comedy that Strindberg considered his masterpiece.

      Cuckold Ubu

      Cuckold Ubu

      By Alfred Jarry

      A 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 Ubu
        Cyrano de Bergerac

        Cyrano de Bergerac

        By Edmond Rostand Translated by Anthony Burgess

        The nineteenth-century French classic about the swordsman-poet with the nose too large to be taken seriously, in an acclaimed English translation by Anthony Burgess.

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