Racine's reworking of Euripides' Hippolytus, celebrated for its tragic construction and the richness of its language.

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.

A startling domestic thriller from the seventeenth century, one of the first tragedies ever to be written about ordinary people. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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

The powerful myth of Medea, who murders her children as revenge for her husband's infidelity. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

A classic tragedy of incestuous love between brother and sister. Published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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.

Middleton and Rowley's masterpiece, a tale of murder, lust, seduction and blackmail in the seventeenth century.

The first great 'resistance' drama - and perhaps the definitive Greek tragedy.

Strindberg's classic naturalistic play, translated and introduced by Kenneth McLeish. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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

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