Classic Drama (pre-1945)

Middleton's only surviving historical play, published in the Nick Hern Books Globe Quartos series.

An enthralling version of an unforgettable Ibsen classic.

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

Schiller's grand historical tragedy, a battle of wits between Mary Queen of Scots and her captor, Queen Elizabeth I.

A classic five-act French comedy by Beaumarchais, the source for Mozart's famous opera of the same name. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

A chillingly grotesque farce set in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution.

The best comedy of manners written in England before Congreve. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

A tragicomedy full of courtly intrigue, betrayal and jealousy. In the Nick Hern Books RSC Classics series.

A masterly satire of London society at the turn of the 17th century, abounding with Middleton's craft and wit.

A classic of German expressionism by an active revolutionary who was also an accomplished poet and playwright.

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.

An edition of Shakespeare's play in the Shakespeare Folios series, offering the absolute authenticity of the First Folio in a totally accessible form.