Shakespeare & Contemporaries

A consummate romantic comedy that dramatises the battle of the sexes with a dazzling display of Shakespeare's wit and wordplay.

A classic tragedy of incestuous love between brother and sister. Published 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.

Volpone is a Venetian aristocrat, a loveable rogue who enjoys the cunning pursuit of wealth more than money itself. Pretending to be mortally ill, he watches as his greedy neighbours swarm around him with expensive gifts in the hope of inheriting his fortune.

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

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.

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

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.

A Jacobean gore-fest of enforced seduction and ultimate revenge. 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.

Ben Jonson's bawdy Jacobean comedy, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Christopher Marlowe's drama of religious conflict, intrigue, and revenge, set on the island of Malta. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

A delightfully lewd city comedy by the co-author of The Changeling.

Ben Jonson's classic comedy, in a handy pocket edition in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Ben Jonson's 1616 comedy about a junior demon who persuades his master Satan to let him spend a day in London.