Classic Drama (pre-1945)
See also: Ancient Classic Drama; Drama Classics series.
Seagull
A striking version of Chekhov's classic play, restoring the cuts demanded by the Russian censor in 1896.
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By Thomas Heywood Edited by Trevor GriffithsA startling domestic thriller from the seventeenth century, one of the first tragedies ever to be written about ordinary people. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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Emperor and Galilean
By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Ben PowerA thrilling version of Ibsen's epic play, charting the true odyssey of an astonishing man as he struggles to find spiritual fulfilment and political pre-eminence.
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By Terence Rattigan and Philip HeimannTerence Rattigan's first play, published for the first time in this edition to mark the centenary of his birth. With an authoritative introduction by Rattigan scholar Dan Rebellato.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Anna Christie
Eugene O’Neill’s epic Pulitzer Prize-winning play about love and forgiveness.
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Love in Idleness/Less Than Kind
The third in Terence Rattigan's unofficial trilogy of war plays, published alongside an earlier version of the play, Less Than Kind, never staged during Rattigan's lifetime.
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By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Mike PoultonAn adaptation of Ibsen's extraordinary last play, When We Dead Awaken, one of his most deeply personal works.
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An Enemy of the People
By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Stephen MulrineIbsen's play about an idealistic doctor whose moral resolve is put to the test when he discovers that the waters from which his native spa town draws its wealth are dangerously contaminated.
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By D H Lawrence Introduction by Colin CounsellAn intense and powerful drama set in a Nottinghamshire mining town. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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£4.50£3.60Add to basketEbook£4.99£3.99The House of Bernarda Alba
By Federico García Lorca Translated by Jo CliffordLorca's extraordinarily powerful drama, the last he wrote before his assassination, explores the darkness at the heart of repression.
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£4.99£3.99Add to basketEbook£4.99£3.99The Servant of Two Masters
By Carlo Goldoni Translated by Stephen MulrineA classic Italian comedy that remains blisteringly hilarious and relevant, over two hundred and fifty years after it was written. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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By Euripides Adapted by Mike BartlettA bold new version of the classic tragedy by one of Britain's hottest playwrights.
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