Classic Drama (pre-1945)
See also: Ancient Classic Drama; Drama Classics series.
The Antipodes
An ingenious satirical comedy, often considered playwright Richard Brome's masterpiece and one of the greatest comedies of the Caroline era, presenting a farcically topsy-turvey view of London in the 1630s.
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The Changeling
Middleton and Rowley's masterpiece, a tale of murder, lust, seduction and blackmail in the seventeenth century.
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£4.99£3.99Add to basketEbook£4.99£3.99The Merry Devil of Edmonton
By AnonymousA 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.
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A Flea in Her Ear
By Georges Feydeau Translated by Kenneth McLeishA classic French farce of infidelity and mistaken identity. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Kenneth McLeishOne of Ibsen's most powerful studies of female psychology, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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Lulu
By Frank Wedekind Adapted by Nicholas WrightThe first version of Wedekind's celebrated erotic masterpiece to be based on the author's original text, restoring the clarity, the daring and the sexual explicitness of a modern masterpiece written a hundred years before its time.
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Henry V
By William Shakespeare Edited by Nick de SomogyiAn edition of Shakespeare's play in the Shakespeare Folios series - offering the absolute authenticity of the First Folio in a totally accessible form.
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Hamlet
By William Shakespeare Edited by Nick de SomogyiAn edition of Shakespeare's play in the Shakespeare Folios series - offering the absolute authenticity of the First Folio in a totally accessible form.
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Twelfth Night
By William Shakespeare Edited by Nick de SomogyiAn edition of the play in the Shakespeare Folios series, offering the absolute authenticity of the First Folio in a totally accessible form.
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Thyestes
By Seneca Translated by Caryl ChurchillAtreus, Agamemnon's father, takes revenge on his brother Thyestes by murdering Thyestes' sons and serving their flesh up for their father's dinner.
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By Jean Racine Translated by Julie RoseRacine's reworking of Euripides' Hippolytus, celebrated for its tragic construction and the richness of its language.
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The Country Wife
A classically bawdy Restoration Comedy, widely regarded as one of the filthiest and funniest plays ever written.
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