This is the first major booklength study for four decades to examine the plays written by D. H. Lawrence, and the first ever book to give an indepth analysis of Lawrences interaction with the theatre industry during the early twentieth century. It connects and examines his performance texts, and explores his reaction to a widerange of theatre (from the sensation dramas of workingclass Eastwood to the ritual performances of the Pueblo people) in order to explain Lawrences contribution to modern drama. F. R. Leavis influentially labelled the writer D. H. Lawrence Novelist. But this book foregrounds Lawrences career as a playwright, exploring unfamiliar contexts and manuscripts, and drawing particular attention to his three most successful works The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd, The DaughterinLaw, and A Colliers Friday Night. It examines how Lawrences novels are suffused with theatrical thinking, revealing how Lawrences fictions from his first published work to the last story that he wrote before his death continually take inspiration from the playhouse. The book also argues that, although Lawrence has sometimes been dismissed as a restrictively naturalistic stage writer, his overall oeuvre shows a consistent concern with theatrical experiment, and manifests affinities with the dramatic thinking of modernist figures including Brecht, Artaud, and Joyce. In a final section, the book includes contributions from influential theatremakers who have taken their own cue from Lawrences...

Binding: Hardcover;264 pages; Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Classification: N/A; Weight: 574.05 g; Dimensions: N/A

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