Drama Classics series
The world's great plays at a great little price
Each pocket-sized volume contains:
- a full introduction
- an author biography
- notes on historical and theatrical context
- a plot synopsis
- key dates
- a further reading list
- a glossary of unusual words and phrases (English-language texts)
The texts are presented uncut (with the exception of Faust, which is adapted for staging in a single evening) and uncluttered with footnotes; the translations are accurate and actable.
See also Drama Classic Collections.
London Assurance
A classic comedy of manners with two of the great comic roles of the English stage, published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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Lysistrata
The ancient Greek comedy in which the women of Greece go on a sex strike to force their husbands to end the Peloponnesian Wars. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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The Man of Mode
The best comedy of manners written in England before Congreve. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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£4.99£3.99
The Marriage of Figaro
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.
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The Master Builder
Ibsen's study of the corrosive effects of a guilty conscience. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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Medea
The powerful myth of Medea, who murders her children as revenge for her husband's infidelity. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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The Misanthrope
Molière's most-admired comedy of manners, about a man whose quickness to criticise the flaws in others, and in himself, leads him into deep trouble. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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£4.99£3.99Add to basketEbook£4.99£3.99The Miser
By Molière Translated by Martin SorrellMolière's story of a covetous old miser, obsessively protecting his hoard of gold and neglecting his long-suffering children. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classic series.
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£4.99£3.99Add to basketEbook£4.99£3.99Miss Julie
By August Strindberg Translated by Kenneth McLeishStrindberg's classic naturalistic play, translated and introduced by Kenneth McLeish. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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£4.99£3.99Add to basketEbook£4.99£3.99Oedipus
By Sophocles Translated by Kenneth McLeishTwo plays, Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonos, telling the story of the mythical Greek king of Thebes.
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£4.99£3.99
The Oresteia
Aeschylus' great trilogy of Greek tragedies: Agamemnon, Choephori (Libation-Bearers) and Eumenides (The Furies).
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£3.99£3.19
Peer Gynt
By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Kenneth McLeishIbsen's mighty epic, by turns fantastic and tragic, based on the Norwegian fairy tale Per Gynt. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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£4.99£3.99Add to basketEbook£4.99£3.99
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