Shakespeare & Contemporaries
This section contains plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. See also Shakespeare books and the Shakespeare Folios series.
Doctor Faustus
The classic story of the learned Doctor Faustus who sells his soul to the devil.
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£4.99£3.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£4.99£3.99The Devil's Charter
A Jacobean tragedy narrating the sensational history of the Borgias.
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The Devil is an Ass
By Ben JonsonBen Jonson's 1616 comedy about a junior demon who persuades his master Satan to let him spend a day in London.
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The Custom of the Country
By John Fletcher and Philip MassingerA 17th-century play tracing the fortunes of two brothers shipwrecked in a foreign land.
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The City Madam (RSC edition)
A waspish city comedy attacking the vices of hypocrisy, greed, self-indulgence and social pretension.
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A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
A delightfully lewd city comedy by the co-author of The Changeling.
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The Changeling
By Thomas Middleton and William RowleyMiddleton and Rowley's masterpiece, a tale of murder, lust, seduction and blackmail in the seventeenth century.
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£4.99£3.99Add to basketEbook£4.99£3.99Cardenio
Shakespeare's 'lost play' re-imagined
Set in the heat and dust of Andalusia in seventeenth-century Spain, Cardenio is the story of a friendship betrayed, with all the elements of a thriller: disguise, dishonour and deceit.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Believe What You Will
A Middle-Eastern leader comes out of hiding, and is hounded from state to state by the forces of the Roman Empire who threaten sanctions and ultimately war on anyone who harbours him.
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Bartholomew Fair
By Ben JonsonBen Jonson's bawdy Jacobean comedy, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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£4.50£3.60
As You Like It
By William Shakespeare Edited by Nick de SomogyiAn edition of Shakespeare's play that offers the absolute authenticity of the First Folio in a totally accessible form.
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£12.99£10.39
Arden of Faversham
By anonymousA domestic tragedy about a woman plotting to have her husband murdered, Arden of Faversham was first published in 1592. Its authorship is unknown, although suggestions include Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare.
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The Antipodes
An ingenious satirical comedy, often considered playwright Richard Brome's masterpiece and one of the greatest comedies of the Caroline era, presenting a farcically topsy-turvey view of London in the 1630s.
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All's Well That Ends Well
By William Shakespeare Edited by Nick de SomogyiAn edition of Shakespeare's play in the authoritative and accessible Shakespeare Folios series.
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The Alchemist
By Ben JonsonBen Jonson's classic comedy, in a handy pocket edition in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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£3.99£3.19Add to basketEbook£4.99£3.99'Tis Pity She's a Whore
By John FordA classic tragedy of incestuous love between brother and sister. Published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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