Classic Drama (pre-1945)

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

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

A classic 19th-century French farce, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

A Jacobean tale of personal vengeance in a morally bankrupt world. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

The classic story of the learned Doctor Faustus who sells his soul to the devil.

A classic Restoration-era comedy about the sexual exploits of two officers, the womanising Plume and the cowardly Brazen, as they go about their task of recruiting soldiers in the town of Shrewsbury.

Ibsen's study of the corrosive effects of a guilty conscience. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Dryden's 1677 play All for Love is a version of the Antony and Cleopatra story, told as a heroic tragedy.

A ghoulish and bloody 16th-century tragedy. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

The political tragedy of a King who indulges his passion and renounces his duties, and ultimately pays the price for forsaking his country.

Chekhov's classic tragicomedy, translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.

A classic comedy of manners, ridiculing affectation and pretentiousness. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.