Classic Drama (pre-1945)
See also: Ancient Classic Drama; Drama Classics series.
After the Dance
Rattigan's brilliant attack on the hedonistic lifestyle of the ‘bright young things’ of the 1920s and 30s.
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An affectionate and witty comedy of recollection from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers. A family-based saga set in the years just before the First World War.
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The Alchemist
By Ben JonsonBen Jonson's classic comedy, in a handy pocket edition in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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£3.99£3.19Add to basketEPUB£4.99£3.99All for Love
By John DrydenDryden's 1677 play All for Love is a version of the Antony and Cleopatra story, told as a heroic tragedy.
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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 WingsAll's Well That Ends Well
By William Shakespeare Edited by Nick de SomogyiAn edition of Shakespeare's play in the authoritative and accessible Shakespeare Folios series.
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Anna Christie
Eugene O’Neill’s epic Pulitzer Prize-winning play about love and forgiveness.
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The Antipodes (Globe Quarto)
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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Arden of Faversham
By AnonymousA domestic tragedy about a woman plotting to have her husband murdered, Arden of Faversham was first published in 1592. Its authorship is unknown, although suggestions include Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare.
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As You Like It
By William Shakespeare Edited by Nick de SomogyiAn edition of Shakespeare's play that offers the absolute authenticity of the First Folio in a totally accessible form.
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Bartholomew Fair
By Ben JonsonBen Jonson's bawdy Jacobean comedy, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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The Bear
By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen MulrineA one-act comic play about a reclusive young widow whose life takes a surprisingly romantic turn.
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