The Methuen World Classics series has for twenty years been regarded as the foremost collection of classical playscripts for a broad spectrum of readers, from students to theatre-goers. These authoritative and practical collections span the entire range of the established theatre repertoire, from Aeschylus to Wilde. The translations are designed to suit the needs of both scholars and performers. Each volume in the series contains a valuable and informative introduction.
Aeschylus
Aeschylus / Sophocles / Euripides
- Six Greek Tragedies
- Persians / Prometheus Bound / Women of Trachis / Philoctetes / Trojan Women / Bacchae
Jean Anouilh
- Antigone / Léocadia / The Waltz of the Toreadors / The Lark / Poor Bitos
- The Rehearsal / Becket / Eurydice / The Orchestra
John Arden
- The Waters of Babylon / When is a Door Not a Door? / Live Like Pigs / Serjeant Musgrave's Dance / The Happy Haven
- The Workhouse Donkey / The Bagman / Armstrong's Last Goodnight / Left-Handed Liberty / The True Story of Squire Jonathan and His Unfortunate Treasure
John Arden, Margaretta D'Arcy
- The Business of Good Government / The Royal Pardon / The Little Gray Home in the West / Ars Longa Vita Brevis / Friday's Hiding / Vandaleur's Folly / Immediate Rough Theatre
Aristophanes
- The Acharnians / The Knights / Peace / Lysistrata
- The Wasps / The Clouds / The Birds / Festival Time / The Frogs
Aristophanes / Menander
- Women in Power / Wealth / The Malcontent / The Woman from Samos
Aristophanes / Menander / Euripides
- Birds / Frogs / Women in Power / The Woman from Samos / Cyclops / Alkestis
Brendan Behan
- The Hostage / The Quare Fellow / Richard's Cork Leg / Moving Out / A Garden Party / The Big House
Aphra Behn
- The Lucky Chance / The Rover (part 1) / The Widow Ranter / The False Count / Abdelazer
Bertolt Brecht
- Baal / Drums in the Night / In the Jungle of Cities / The Life of Edward II of England / A Respectable Wedding / The Beggar or the Dead Dog / Driving Out a Devil / Lux in Tenebris / The Catch
- Man Equals Man / The Elephant Calf / The Threepenny Opera / The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny / The Seven Deadly Sins of the Petty Bourgeoisie
- St Joan of the Stockyards / The Mother / Lindbergh's Flight / The Baden-Baden Lesson on Consent / He Said Yes/He Said No / The Decision / The Exception and the Rule / The Horatians and the Curiatians
- Round Heads and Pointed Heads / Fear and Misery of the Third Reich / Señora Carrar's Rifles / The Trial of Lucullus / Dansen / How Much Is Your Iron?
- Life of Galileo / Mother Courage and Her Children
- The Good Person of Szechwan / The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui / Mr Puntila and his Man Matti
- The Good Person of Szechwan / The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui / Mr Puntila and his Man Matti
- The Visions of Simone Machard / Schweyk in the Second World War / The Caucasian Chalk Circle / The Duchess of Malfi
- The Antigone of Sophocles / The Days of the Commune / Turandot or The Whitewashers' Congress
Georg Büchner
- Danton's Death / Leonce and Lena / Woyzeck / The Hessian Courier / Lenz / On Cranial Nerves and Selected Letters
Mikhail Bulgakov
- The White Guard / Madame Zoyka / Flight / Moliere / Adam and Eve / The Last Days.
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
- The Surgeon of Honour / Life is a Dream / Three Judgements in One
Karel Capek
- R. U. R. / The Insect Play / The Makropulos Case / The White Plague.
Anton Chekhov
- The Seagull / Uncle Vanya / Three Sisters / The Cherry Orchard / four vaudevilles
- A New Version by David Lan
Noël Coward
- Hay Fever / The Vortex / Fallen Angels / Easy Virtue
- Private Lives / Bitter-Sweet / The Marquise / Post-Mortem
- Design for Living / Cavalcade / Conversation Piece / Tonight at 8.30 (i)
- Blithe Spirit / Present Laughter / This Happy Breed / Tonight at 8.30 (ii)
- Relative Values / Look After Lulu / Waiting in the Wings / Suite in Three Keys
- Semi-Monde / Point Valaine / South Sea Bubble
- Quadrille / "Peace in Our Time" / Tonight at 8.30 (iii) (We Were Dancing, Shadow Play, Family Album, Star Chamber)
- I'll Leave it to You / The Young Idea / "This was a Man"
Eduardo de Filippo
- The Local Authority / Grand Magic / Filumena / Marturano
Ramon del Valle-Inclan
- Divine Words / Bohemian Lights / Silver Face
Alfred de Musset
- The Moods of Marianne / Fantasio / Lorenzaccio / Don't Play with Love / Caprice
Lope de Vega / Rojas Zorrilla
- The Duchess of Amalfi's Steward / The Capulets and Montagues / Cleopatra
Euripides
- Medea / The Phoenician Women / Bacchae
- Hecuba / The Women of Troy / Iphigenia at Aulis / Cyclops
- Elektra / Orestes / Iphigeneia in Tauris
- Andromache / Herakles' Children / Herakles
- Hippolytos / Suppliants / Rhesos
Georges Feydeau
- Heart's Desire Hotel / Sauce for the Goose / The One That Got Away / Now You See It and Pig in a Poke
- The Girl from Maxim's / She's All Yours / A Flea in Her Ear / Jailbird
Max Frisch
- The Fire Raisers / Andorra / Triptych
John Galsworthy
- Strife / Justice / The Eldest Son / The Skin Game
Nikolai Gogol
- The Government Inspector / Marriage / The Gamblers
Maxim Gorky
- Enemies / The Lower Depths / Summerfolk / Children of the Sun / Barbarians
- The Zykovs / Egor Bulychov / Vassa Zheleznova (The Mother) / The Last Ones
Harley Granville-Barker
- The Voysey Inheritance / Waste / The Secret Life / Rococo / Vote by Ballot
- The Marrying of Ann Leete / The Madras House / His Majesty / Farewell to the Theatre
Adrian Henri
Victor Hugo
- Hernani / Marion de Lorme / Lucrece Borgia / Ruy Blas
Henrik Ibsen
- Ghosts / The Wild Duck / The Master Builder
- A Doll's House / An Enemy of the People / Hedda Gabler
- Rosmersholm / The Lady from the Sea / Little Eyolf
- The Pillars of Society / John Gabriel Borkman / When We Dead Awaken
- Brand / Emperor and Galilean
- Peer Gynt / the Pretenders
Alfred Jarry
- Ubu Rex / Ubu Cuckolded / Ubu Enchained
Federico Garcia Lorca
- Blood Wedding / Doña Rosita the Spinster / Yerma
- The Shoemaker's Wonderful Wife / The Love of Don Perlimplín / The Puppet Play of Don Cristóbal / The Butterfly's Evil Spell / When Five Years Pass
- Mariana Pineda / The Public / Play Without a Title
Pierre Marivaux
- The Double Inconstancy / The False Servant / The Game of Love and Chance / Careless Vows / The Feigned Inconstancy / Five one-act pieces
W. Somerset Maugham
- Sheppey / The Sacred Flame / The Circle / The Constant Wife / Our Betters
- For Services Rendered / The Letter / Home and Beauty / Lady Frederick
Molière
- The Misanthrope / Tartuffe / The School for Wives / The Miser / The Hypochondriac
Joe Orton
- Entertaining Mr Sloane / Loot / What the Butler Saw / The Ruffian on the Stair / The Erpingham Camp / Funeral Games / The Good and Faithful Servant.
Arthur Pinero
- The Magistrate / The Second Mrs Tanqueray / Trelawny of the 'Wells'
Luigi Pirandello
- The Rules of the Game / Six Characters in Search of an Author / Henry IV
Plautus / Terence
- Plautus: The Haunted House / Casina, or A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Wedding; Terence: The Eunuch / Brothers
Terence Rattigan
- French Without Tears / The Winslow Boy / The Browning Version / Harlequinade
- The Deep Blue Sea / Separate Tables / In Praise of Love / Before Dawn
Sophocles
- Oedipus the King / Oedipus at Colonnus / Antigone
- Ajax / Women of Trachis / Electra / Philoctetes
August Strindberg
- The Father / Miss Julie / The Ghost Sonata
- A Dream Play / The Dance of Death / The Stronger
- Master Olof / Creditors / To Damascus
J M Synge
- In the Shadow of the Glen / Riders to the Sea / The Tinker's Wedding / The Well of the Saints / The Playboy of the Western World / Deirdre of the Sorrows
Frank Wedekind
- Spring Awakening / Lulu: A Monster Tragedy
Oscar Wilde
- Lady Windermere's Fan / An Ideal Husband / The Importance of Being Earnest / A Woman of No Importance / Salome / The Duchess of Padua / Vera, or, The Nihilists / A Florentine Tragedy / La Sainte Courtesane
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