Shakespeare & Contemporaries
This section contains plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. See also Shakespeare books and the Shakespeare Folios series.
The Jew of Malta
Christopher Marlowe's drama of religious conflict, intrigue, and revenge, set on the island of Malta. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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£3.99£3.19
Volpone
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.
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£4.99£3.99
The Devil is an Ass
Ben 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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£3.99£3.19There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
The Shakespeare Revue
An enchanting collection of witty music and skits about the Bard, devised for and first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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£13.99£11.19
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 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£3.99The Spanish Tragedy
By Thomas KydA ghoulish and bloody 16th-century tragedy. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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£4.99£3.99
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
The Honest Whore
A passionate tale of paternal disapproval and sexual deceit, following the lives of a princess and a whore.
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£14.99£11.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
A Mad World, My Masters
A masterly satire of London society at the turn of the 17th century, abounding with Middleton's craft and wit.
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Edward II
The political tragedy of a King who indulges his passion and renounces his duties, and ultimately pays the price for forsaking his country.
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The Devil's Charter
A Jacobean tragedy narrating the sensational history of the Borgias.
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£12.99£10.39There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
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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£10.99£8.79There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
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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£14.99£11.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
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£3.99The Merry Devil of Edmonton
By AnonymousA popular comedy from the early-17th century, combining romance, magic, deer poaching and abduction from a nunnery. Part of the Nick Hern Books Globe Quartos series.
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£10.99£8.79There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
Henry V
By William Shakespeare Edited by Nick de SomogyiAn edition of Shakespeare's play in the Shakespeare Folios series - offering the absolute authenticity of the First Folio in a totally accessible form.
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Hamlet
By William Shakespeare Edited by Nick de SomogyiAn edition of Shakespeare's play in the Shakespeare Folios series - offering the absolute authenticity of the First Folio in a totally accessible form.
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