NHB Classic Plays

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

Lorca's tale of an impassioned, childless woman who is driven by madness to commit a heinous crime. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

An enthralling version of an unforgettable Ibsen classic.

Frank Wedekind's famously banned German play about adolescent sexuality.

The savage power of ancient myth collides with twentieth-century decadence in Oscar Wilde's astonishing tragedy.

Euripides' tragedy, reworked by poet Tom Paulin into lithe and sinewy modern English.

A classic from the Spanish Golden Age, Calderón's richly poetic, epic masterpiece explores illusion, reality, fate and destiny against the backdrop of a mythical Polish kingdom.

Schiller's epic trilogy set during the Thirty Years' War, adapted into a gripping single play with all the drama and twists of fate of a Shakespearean tragedy.

A portrait of idealism and democracy floundering in a society of conservatism and opportunism, considered by many to be Ibsen's dramatic masterpiece.

García Lorca's passionate, lyrical tale of longing and revenge: a twentieth century masterpiece.

The extraordinary and mesmeric play by the Swedish author who was reputedly a model for Miss Julie and Hedda Gabler.

An explosive retelling of the most savage and powerful of ancient myths - the story of avenging siblings, Electra and Orestes.