Classic Drama (pre-1945)

Eugene O’Neill’s epic Pulitzer Prize-winning play about love and forgiveness.

A striking version of Chekhov's classic play, restoring the cuts demanded by the Russian censor in 1896.

Arthur Miller's version of Ibsen's most explosive play.

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.

A powerful expressionist drama from the 1920s about the dependent status of women in an increasingly mechanised society, based on the true story of Ruth Snyder.

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

A popular comedy from the early-17th century, combining romance, magic, deer poaching and abduction from a nunnery. Part of the Nick Hern Books Globe Quartos series.

Middleton's only surviving historical play, published in the Nick Hern Books Globe Quartos series.

Nicholas Wright's version of Chekhov's masterpiece, in which four young people are left stranded in a provincial backwater following the death of their father.

Lessing's 18th-century masterpiece, a passionate plea for religious tolerance.

A Jacobean tragicomedy from 1617, about a shepherd who seeks redress for a miscarriage of justice.

A chillingly grotesque farce set in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution.