Classic Drama (pre-1945)

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The Country Wife

By William Wycherley

A classically bawdy Restoration Comedy, widely regarded as one of the filthiest and funniest plays ever written.

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Creditors

By August Strindberg Translated by Howard Brenton

Passionate, dangerously funny, and enduringly perceptive, a wickedly enjoyable black comedy that Strindberg considered his masterpiece.

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Cuckold Ubu

By Alfred Jarry

A sequel to King Ubu, Alfred Jarry's surreal and hilarious satire of power, greed, and bourgeois pretension. Cuckold Ubu continues the adventures of Pa Ubu.

Published in volume Ubu

The Custom of the Country

By John Fletcher and Philip Massinger

A 17th-century play tracing the fortunes of two brothers shipwrecked in a foreign land.

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Cyrano de Bergerac

By Edmond Rostand Translated by Anthony Burgess

The nineteenth-century French classic about the swordsman-poet with the nose too large to be taken seriously, in an acclaimed English translation by Anthony Burgess.

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The Dance of Death

By August Strindberg Translated by Stephen Mulrine

Strindberg's chilling anatomy of a marriage, in which the two partners duel with each other until one is utterly defeated.

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The Dance of Death

By August Strindberg Adapted by Conor McPherson

A visceral new version of Strindberg’s compelling, bitingly funny battle of wills.

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Dances of Death

By Howard Brenton Original author August Strindberg

A gripping new version of Strindberg's masterly, darkly hilarious depiction of the struggles and strains of marriage.

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Desire Under the Elms

By Eugene O'Neill

A story of greed, yearning and murder with incest and infanticide, and edged with echoes of Ancient Greek tragedy within a New England farming family.

Published in volume Desire Under the Elms & The Great God Brown