NHB Classic Plays
A Dream Play
Caryl Churchill's spare and resonant version of Strindberg's enigmatic masterpiece.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59Don Carlos
By Friedrich Schiller Adapted by Mike PoultonSchiller's great tragedy transformed by Mike Poulton into an intense and gripping historical thriller.
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A Doll's House
By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Kenneth McLeishIbsen's revolutionary tale of a woman's awakening to her need for a life of her own.
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£4.99£3.99Add to basketEbook£4.99£3.99Desire Under the Elms
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 BrownDances of Death
By Howard Brenton Original author August StrindbergA gripping new version of Strindberg's masterly, darkly hilarious depiction of the struggles and strains of marriage.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99The Dance of Death
By August Strindberg Adapted by Conor McPhersonA visceral new version of Strindberg’s compelling, bitingly funny battle of wills.
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Cyrano de Bergerac
By Edmond Rostand Translated by Anthony BurgessThe 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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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39Cuckold 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 UbuCreditors
By August Strindberg Translated by Howard BrentonPassionate, dangerously funny, and enduringly perceptive, a wickedly enjoyable black comedy that Strindberg considered his masterpiece.
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£7.99£6.39
The Country Wife
A classically bawdy Restoration Comedy, widely regarded as one of the filthiest and funniest plays ever written.
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£4.99£3.99Add to basketEbook£4.99£3.99The City Madam (RSC edition)
A waspish city comedy attacking the vices of hypocrisy, greed, self-indulgence and social pretension.
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The Cherry Orchard
By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen MulrineChekhov's classic tragicomedy, translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.
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£4.99£3.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£4.99£3.99Chekhov: Shorts
By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen MulrineA collection of five of Anton Chekhov’s best-known short plays, in brand new English translations.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39Chekhov: Four Plays
By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen MulrineAnton 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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Cardenio
Shakespeare's 'lost play' re-imagined
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.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Blood Wedding
By Federico García Lorca Adapted by Tanya RonderGarcía Lorca's blood-soaked story of doomed love, in a version by playwright Tanya Ronder.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59Blood Wedding
By Federico García Lorca Translated by Jo CliffordGarcía Lorca's passionate, lyrical tale of longing and revenge: a twentieth century masterpiece.
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£4.99£3.99Add to basketEbook£4.99£3.99Believe What You Will
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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