Plays

A pivotal work of European culture, with a character that has inspired artists from Goya to Picasso.

Oscar Wilde's audacious drama of social scandal centres around the revelation of a long-concealed secret. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

A superlative farce by the master of the form, Molière, written at the height of his powers, a masterclass in comic construction. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

The best known play by one of the most performed French playwrights - a sparkling 18th-century comedy of manners. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

The best comedy of manners written in England before Congreve. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Lorca's extraordinarily powerful drama, the last he wrote before his assassination, explores the darkness at the heart of repression.

A short play about the Suffragette movement in Ireland, as the question of Home Rule divides the nation.

A short play about Elizabeth I: the myth and the reality.

A short play about the working relationship between Mrs Thatcher and the Queen.

A short play about the protests at Greenham Common, a political landmark in the fight for nuclear disarmament.

A short play about Margaret Beckett finding herself Acting Leader of the Opposition after the sudden death of John Smith.

A short play about the power politics underlying the selection of any candidate.

A short play about the election of a new President of a Students' Association.

A short play about a millionaire businesswoman confronted by an unexpected visitor.

A short play by the author of the Adrian Mole books, set in a council house in a small Leicestershire town at election time.

A short play about a young mother's inability to cope with separation from her daughter.

A short play about a mother confronted by the child she had to give up.

A short play about two children forced into prostitution.