Plays to perform

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.

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Hedda Gabler

Hedda Gabler

By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Kenneth McLeish

An English version of Henrik Ibsen's play Hedda Gabler, published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

The Duchess of Malfi

The Duchess of Malfi

By John Webster

The macabre Jacobean tragedy, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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An Italian Straw Hat

An Italian Straw Hat

By Eugène Labiche Translated by Kenneth McLeish

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

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The White Devil

The White Devil

By John Webster

The Italian Court is riddled with corruption in this classic Jacobean tragedy. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

The Learned Ladies

The Learned Ladies

By Molière Translated by A.R. Waller

Molière's satire of intellectual snobbery, in a translation first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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Woyzeck

Woyzeck

By Georg Büchner Translated by Gregory Motton

One of the most performed and influential plays in German theatre, a modern classic that remains frighteningly relevant today. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Lysistrata

Lysistrata

By Aristophanes Translated by Patric Dickinson

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 Alchemist

The Alchemist

By Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson's classic comedy, in a handy pocket edition in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Doctor Faustus

Doctor Faustus

By Christopher Marlowe

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

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The Revenger's Tragedy

The Revenger's Tragedy

By Cyril Tourneur

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

The Government Inspector

The Government Inspector

By Nikolai Gogol Translated by Stephen Mulrine

A classic satire of provincial bureaucracy, in an English translation by Stephen Mulrine. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

The Recruiting Officer

The Recruiting Officer

By George Farquhar

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.

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