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.

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

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

Dryden's 1677 play All for Love is a version of the Antony and Cleopatra story, told as a heroic tragedy.

A ghoulish and bloody 16th-century tragedy. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

The political tragedy of a King who indulges his passion and renounces his duties, and ultimately pays the price for forsaking his country.

The story of revenge by the half-man, half-god Dionysos on Pentheus, King of Thebes, and all his people.

Two plays, Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonos, telling the story of the mythical Greek king of Thebes.

A Jacobean gore-fest of enforced seduction and ultimate revenge. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.