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 ...

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 ...

George Farquhar's immortal comedy about two young gentlemen with a misguided plan to get enrich themselves at the expense of a series of young heiresses.

A pair of London gentlemen, Archer and Aimwell, ...

Restless and discontented in her marriage, Hedda Gabler is drawn to a former admirer, Lovborg, now a brilliant writer. But he is more taken with Hedda's old schoolfriend. Driven by jealousy, Hedda destroys ...

A classic comedy of manners from the Restoration period.

Mirabell loves the heiress Millamant and must concoct a clever plan which allows him to marry her and keep her fortune despite the vengeful wrath ...

The powerful myth of Medea, who murders her children as revenge for her husband's infidelity.

This English version of Euripides' Medea, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, is translated and ...

Christopher Marlowe's The Jew of Malta is a drama of religious conflict, intrigue, and revenge, set on the island of Malta and taking place against a backdrop of the struggle for supremacy between Spain ...