Classic Drama (pre-1945)

Alfred Jarry's surreal and hilarious satire of power, greed, and bourgeois pretension, the first of his three plays about the comically grotesque character of Pa Ubu.

A classic satire on chivalric romances. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Schnitzler's famous 'daisy-chain' play of sexual coupling, set in Vienna in the 1890s. In the Drama Classics series.

One of Ibsen's most powerful studies of female psychology, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Ibsen's moving play about duty and self-determination, relocated to the Caribbean in the 1950s.

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

Ibsen's political comedy, in a crisp and satirical version by Andy Barrett.

Molière's satire of intellectual snobbery, in a translation first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Jean Cocteau's frank, ironic, bruisingly melodramatic play dealing with incest and the diseased love from which it stems.

A classic from the Spanish Golden Age, Calderón's richly poetic, epic masterpiece explores illusion, reality, fate and destiny against the backdrop of a mythical Polish kingdom.

A masterpiece of the Spanish Golden Age, in an English version by John Clifford.

A funny and touching new version of Pirandello's high-spirited drama, set at the heart of a rural community where property and family unleash fierce passions.