Classic Drama (pre-1945)
See also: Ancient Classic Drama; Drama Classics series.
The City Madam (RSC edition)
A waspish city comedy attacking the vices of hypocrisy, greed, self-indulgence and social pretension.
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The Duchess of Malfi
The macabre Jacobean tragedy, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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The Machine Wreckers
A classic of German expressionism by an active revolutionary who was also an accomplished poet and playwright.
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Mary Stuart
Schiller's grand historical tragedy, a battle of wits between Mary Queen of Scots and her captor, Queen Elizabeth I.
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£9.99£7.99An Italian Straw Hat
By Eugène Labiche Translated by Kenneth McLeishA classic 19th-century French farce, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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£4.99£3.99John Gabriel Borkman (National Theatre version)
By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Nicholas WrightNicholas Wright's sensitive version of Ibsen's late play, about a family brought low by the disgrace and imprisonment of its patriarch.
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Naked
By Luigi Pirandello Adapted by Nicholas WrightPirandello's ingenious detective story about a young woman who is hounded by the press after the death of a child in her care..
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The Master Builder
By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Kenneth McLeishIbsen's study of the corrosive effects of a guilty conscience. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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The Learned Ladies
By Molière Translated by A.R. WallerMolière's satire of intellectual snobbery, in a translation first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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A Mad World, My Masters
A masterly satire of London society at the turn of the 17th century, abounding with Middleton's craft and wit.
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Edward II
The political tragedy of a King who indulges his passion and renounces his duties, and ultimately pays the price for forsaking his country.
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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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