Shakespeare & Contemporaries

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

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.

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

An enchanting collection of witty music and skits about the Bard, devised for and first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

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

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

A ghoulish and bloody 16th-century tragedy. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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

A passionate tale of paternal disapproval and sexual deceit, following the lives of a princess and a whore.

A masterly satire of London society at the turn of the 17th century, abounding with Middleton's craft and wit.

The political tragedy of a King who indulges his passion and renounces his duties, and ultimately pays the price for forsaking his country.

A Jacobean tragedy narrating the sensational history of the Borgias.

A 17th-century play tracing the fortunes of two brothers shipwrecked in a foreign land.

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.

Middleton and Rowley's masterpiece, a tale of murder, lust, seduction and blackmail in the seventeenth century.

A 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.

An edition of Shakespeare's play in the Shakespeare Folios series - offering the absolute authenticity of the First Folio in a totally accessible form.

An edition of Shakespeare's play in the Shakespeare Folios series - offering the absolute authenticity of the First Folio in a totally accessible form.