Classic Drama (pre-1945)

A biting satire on the morals of Victorian society, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Ibsen's political comedy, in a crisp and satirical version by Andy Barrett.

Molière's satire of intellectual snobbery, in a translation first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Jean Cocteau's frank, ironic, bruisingly melodramatic play dealing with incest and the diseased love from which it stems.

A classic from the Spanish Golden Age, Calderón's richly poetic, epic masterpiece explores illusion, reality, fate and destiny against the backdrop of a mythical Polish kingdom.

A masterpiece of the Spanish Golden Age, in an English version by John Clifford.

A funny and touching new version of Pirandello's high-spirited drama, set at the heart of a rural community where property and family unleash fierce passions.

Ibsen's forensic examination of a marriage as it falls apart, in a version by Richard Eyre.

A classic comedy of manners with two of the great comic roles of the English stage, published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

A true modern classic from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers.

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.

A masterpiece of power and politics that explores the battle between honour and corruption, between truth and betrayal.