Plays

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

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.

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.

Chekhov's classic tragicomedy, translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.

A classic comedy of manners, ridiculing affectation and pretentiousness. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Ibsen's mighty epic, by turns fantastic and tragic, based on the Norwegian fairy tale Per Gynt. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

The best-loved English comedy of the 18th century, a lighthearted farce full of entanglements and misunderstandings, all set over the course of single, eventful night. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

The Rolls-Royce of English comedies, exploring corruption and morality, and bringing an act of political sin into the heart of the English home.

A classic five-act French comedy by Beaumarchais, the source for Mozart's famous opera of the same name. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Schnitzler's famous 'daisy-chain' play of sexual coupling, set in Vienna in the 1890s. In the Drama Classics series.

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

A classic satire on chivalric romances. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Moliere's comic masterpiece about an irreclaimable hypocrite - one of the most famous French plays of all time.

A rumbustious Elizabethan comedy featuring identity fraud, love triangles and a marriage proposal disguised as a shoe fitting. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.