A magical re-telling of the story of Beauty and the Beast, with music by Mick Sands drawn from traditional French folk melodies.

Part of the Globe Quartos series, co-published with Shakespeare's Globe marking their rediscoveries of forgotten plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries. The Witches of Lancashire is a sensational dramatisation ...

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

This edition of Christopher Marlowe's play contains two self-contained versions, known as the A-text and the B-text, allowing ...

The women of Greece go on a sex strike to force their husbands to end the Peloponnesian Wars.

This edition of Aristophanes' comedy Lysistrata, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, is translated ...

Molière's satire of intellectual snobbery, in a translation first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

In Molière's 1672 play Les Femmes Savantes, Chrysale's daughter Henriette wants to marry ...

A classic of 20th-century theatre, Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden ran for a year in the West End, was a hit on Broadway and was filmed by Roman Polanski starring Ben Kingsley and Sigourney Weaver. ...

A macabre Jacobean tragedy, loosely based on true events.

John Webster's play The Duchess of Malfi begins as a love story, with a Duchess who marries beneath her class, and ends as a nightmarish tragedy ...

A guide to Psycho-Physical Acting, complete with games and exercises. When Stanislavsky died, he was working on a new system, Psycho-Physical Acting. Previously he had taught that truthful performance ...