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Eastward Ho!

The Nick Hern Books RSC Classics - a series of rarely performed plays from the 16th and 17th centuries, published alongside their resurrection by the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon ...

The Night Heron

A dark, funny, spellbinding play about a group of outcasts and eccentrics gathered in the Cambridgeshire fens, from the author of Jerusalem and The Ferryman.

The sighting of a rare bird attracts attention ...

Tartuffe

Translated by Martin Sorrell
By Molière
Series: Drama Classics

Molière's comic masterpiece about an irreclaimable hypocrite - one of the most famous French plays of all time.

The pious Tartuffe is lodging with Orgon and his family, ingratiating himself with both ...

So Long Life

Bristol, 1995. It is Alice’s 85th birthday. An occasion for celebration. But like many family gatherings, it is also an occasion for parading long-held resentments, as her children attempt to persuade ...

The Country Wife

Restoration era London: Puritan laws and censorship laws are repealed; theatres re-open; and the cosmopolitan wives are living it up with extravagance, infidelity and impertinence towards their cuckold ...

The Knight of the Burning Pestle

Francis Beaumont's The Knight of the Burning Pestle is a five-act satire on chivalric romances, generally considered the earliest whole parody (or pastiche) play in English.

The play's structure is ...

The Love of Shakespeare's Women

Here are the famous speeches from Juliet—"Come, night! Come, Romeo!"—and from Portia—"The quality of mercy. .."—but also less familiar ones from Viola, Hermia, Isabella and Cressida. These younger ...

Resident Alien: Quentin Crisp Explains it All

A new edition of the "tour-de force" (Time Out) based on the life of Quentin Crisp. "The great majority of this absorbing monologue consists of Crisp’s own words. ..wisely Fountain doesn’t attempt ...

Andromache

By Euripides
Translated by J. Michael Wilson
Series: Drama Classics

Andromache takes place in the aftermath of the Trojan War. Andromache has become a concubine to Achilles' son, Neoptolemus, bearing him a child, Molossus. The captive Andromache is haunted by memories ...

bedbound & misterman

In bedbound, a father and daughter share a small bed. He talks frantically about his extraordinary past in furniture sales; she talks no less compulsively about anything at all, to fill the terrifying ...