Classic Drama (pre-1945)

The best known play by one of the most performed French playwrights - a sparkling 18th-century comedy of manners. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

A masterpiece by one of the greatest writers of the Spanish Golden Age, including one of the most memorable acts of resistance in world drama.

A masterpiece of light comedy from Terence Rattigan, about a group of bright young things attempting to learn French on the Riviera amid myriad distractions.

A rich and poetic play set during the Russian Civil War, by the author of The Master and Margarita.

A bawdy, satiric and theatrically allusive comedy that was extremely popular with seventeenth-century readers.

A classic French farce of infidelity and mistaken identity. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

A moving story of love and loyalty, courage and fear, based on Terence Rattigan's own experiences as a tail gunner in the Second World War.

Terence Rattigan's first play, published for the first time in this edition to mark the centenary of his birth. With an authoritative introduction by Rattigan scholar Dan Rebellato. 

A two-part version of Goethe's great work, retaining the mighty scope, linguistic daring and philosophical intricacy of the original.

A fresh, performable version by John Clifford of Goethe's 'unstageable' masterpiece.

Strindberg's gripping psychological drama about the battle of the sexes, in a version by Mike Poulton.

James Joyce's only play, a startlingly modern portrait of a marriage.