Classic Drama (pre-1945)

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Three Sisters

By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen Mulrine

Chekhov's masterpiece of provincial claustrophobia, translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.

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A Doll's House

By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Kenneth McLeish

Ibsen's revolutionary tale of a woman's awakening to her need for a life of her own.

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A Touch of the Poet

By Eugene O'Neill

A powerful play tracking the Yankee experience from innocence to corruption, from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers.

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The Hairy Ape

By Eugene O'Neill

A nightmarish condemnation of the dehumanising effects of industrialisation on the American people.

Published in volume The Hairy Ape & All God's Chillun Got Wings

All God's Chillun Got Wings

By Eugene O'Neill

An expressionist play about a violently dysfunctional mixed-race marriage, inspired by an old Negro spiritual.

Published in volume The Hairy Ape & All God's Chillun Got Wings

Machinal

By Sophie Treadwell

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.

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Peer Gynt

By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Gerry Bamman and Irene B. Berman

A fresh translation of one of the last great epics of the nineteenth century.

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Three Sisters

By Anton Chekhov Translated by Paul Schmidt

A clear, colloquial and accurate translation of Chekhov's play about the Prozorov family's dream of returning from the provinces to an idealised Moscow.

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Mourning Becomes Electra

By Eugene O'Neill

A trilogy of full-length plays relocating Aeschylus' Oresteia to New England in 1865, just after the end of the American Civil War.

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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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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.