Ancient Classic Drama

The story of Andromache, widow of the Trojan hero Hector. In the Drama Classics series.

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

A muscular version of Sophocles' timeless masterpiece, offering a profound reflection on the nature of power, democracy and human rights.

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

Euripides' version of the Ancient Greek myth of revenge on a murdering parent. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

A tragic tale of duty, retribution and fate, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

An English translation of Euripides' classic tragedy, published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

The ancient Greek comedy in which the women of Greece go on a sex strike to force their husbands to end the Peloponnesian Wars. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Euripides' tragedy, reworked by poet Tom Paulin into lithe and sinewy modern English.

The powerful myth of Medea, who murders her children as revenge for her husband's infidelity. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Euripides' classic story of the woman who murders her own children in revenge for her husband's infidelity, here given a distinctive Scots flavour by the poet and playwright Liz Lochhead.

Two plays, Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonos, telling the story of the mythical Greek king of Thebes.