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The work of the world's greatest dramatist is edited by outstanding scholars and presented here, along with an extensive overview of Shakespeare's life, world and theater, a special note on the sources from which Shakespeare derived this work, dramatic criticism, commentaries, and much more.

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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.

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A young lawyer's involvement in her first case leads her through a criminal justice system - police, courts and prisons - which is cracking at the seams. Murmuring Judges is the second play in David Hare's highly acclaimed trilogy about British institutions.

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When overbearing Professor Higgins stumbles on flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, in Covent Garden he recognizes that her hideous vowels and forgotten consonants are all that separate her from the upper classes. Higgins wagers that he can pass her off as a Duchess in a matter of weeks. But what will become of Eliza when the bet is over

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A brand new comedy about love, loss and laminating machines.

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At last, a collection of work by Britain's hugely influential and unfairly forgotten comic genius, N. F. Simpson.

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Its a parallel world, 1860. Two teenagers thrown together by a tsunami that has destroyed Mau's village and left Daphne shipwrecked on his South Pacific island, thousands of miles from home. One wears next to nothing, the other a long white dress; neither speaks the other's language; somehow they must learn to survive.

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Set during the late eighties in a plush Detroit suburb, this darkly comic play chronicles the class clash between an affluent couple with social aspirations and the neighbour they grudgingly invite into their home.

A pack containing 11 plays for young people drawn from National Theatre Connections 2020 anthology and the new National Theatre Connections 2021 collection.

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Spanning his career from 1990 to 2013, this collection brings together plays by Neil LaBute that take an unflinching look at the turbulent relationships between men and women.

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Neil LaBute's third collection includes Bash, Reasons to be Pretty, Reasons to be Happy, How to Fight Loneliness and If I Needed Someone.

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English translations of four plays which dramatize the theme of man's responsibility for his own actions, by the leader of French existentialism.

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Do Hirst and Spooner really know each other, or are they performing an elaborate charade The ambiguity - and the comedy - intensify with the arrival of Briggs and Fraser. All four inhabit a no-man's-land between time present and time remembered, between reality and imagination.

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A new play from Polly Stenham.

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If you think you know what it's like to be me you are seriously deluded.

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New edition, with new introduction by P. J. Mathews.

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Oedipus is an old man finally coming to terms with the terrible actions of his earlier life. As he struggles to accept his fate, he also questions his guilt in his past crimes - transgressions manipulated by the will of the gods. With war now raging over his succession, Oedipus must make his final decision alone.

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With a plague ravishing Thebes, it falls upon Oedipus, the king, to discover its cause. Yet in consulting the blind prophet Tiresias, Oedipus uncovers not only the roots of the gods' displeasure but also a dreadful secret about his own past.

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Two inner-city callboxes serve as the makeshift trading post for Sharky and Showtime, two streetwise drug-dealers who, as part of a tight crime 'family', answer to the absent kingpin, Papa.

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Sebastian Barry's new play explores our capacity to commit the deadliest of crimes but also our capacity for survival, reconciliation and love.

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Leonard and Violet, young, restless and in love, spend their first night together knowing it may also be their last. It's 1942 and, in a hotel room in Bath, they dream of their future while preparing for Leonard's departure to the war. But the bombs begin to fall and their world will never be the same again.