Classic Drama (pre-1945)

Pirandello's most famous play, about the nature of theatre and the problems of theatricality. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

The third and final part of The Ubu Plays, Alfred Jarry's surreal and hilarious satire of power, greed, and bourgeois pretension. Slave Ubu concludes the adventures of Pa Ubu.

A ghoulish and bloody 16th-century tragedy. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Frank Wedekind's famously banned German play about adolescent sexuality.

A controversial work of extraordinary power, remarkable length (9 acts), and use of asides to express the characters' unspoken thoughts. An outstanding, somewhat Freudian play from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers.

Gorky's magnificent play about the Russian bourgeois social class and the changes occurring around them in the middle of the first decade of the twentieth century. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

A comic duologue about a melancholy old actor perked up by memories of past glories.

An irreverent and hugely entertaining 'sequel' to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.

Moliere's comic masterpiece about an irreclaimable hypocrite - one of the most famous French plays of all time.

An eidition of the play in the Shakespeare Folios series - offering the absolute authenticity of the First Folio in a totally accessible form.

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

Chekhov's masterpiece of provincial claustrophobia, translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.