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9781472570383 1472570383 This is the first book-length study for four decades to examine the plays written by D. H. Lawrence, and the first ever book to examine these works alongside the films inspired by his novels. The book connects and examines these performance texts in order to explain Lawrence's key contribution to modern drama.F. R. Leavis influentially labelled the writer 'D. H. Lawrence: Novelist'. But this book foregrounds Lawrence's 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 Daughter-in-Law , and A Collier's Friday Night . It examines how Lawrence's novels are suffused with theatrical thinking, and shows how these texts were then apt to be remade into a series of films that provided some of the most iconic moments in modern cinema.The book also includes interviews with influential figures who have staged Lawrence's work, whilst a concluding chapter situates Lawrence's work alongside that of other modernist writers whose work for the stage has been neglected, including Joyce, Woolf, and Pound., This is the first major book-length study for four decades to examine the plays written by D. H. Lawrence, and the first ever book to give an in-depth analysis of Lawrence's interaction with the theatre industry during the early twentieth century. It connects and examines his performance texts, and explores his reaction to a wide-range of theatre (from the sensation dramas of working-class Eastwood to the ritual performances of the Pueblo people) in order to explain Lawrence's contribution to modern drama. F. R. Leavis influentially labelled the writer 'D. H. Lawrence: Novelist'. But this book foregrounds Lawrence's 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 Daughter-in-Law," and "A Collier's Friday Night." It examines how Lawrence's novels are suffused with theatrical thinking, revealing how Lawrence's 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 theatre-makers who have taken their own cue from Lawrence's work, and who have created original work that consciously follows Lawrence in making working-class life central to the public forum of the theatre stage."
9781472570383 1472570383 This is the first book-length study for four decades to examine the plays written by D. H. Lawrence, and the first ever book to examine these works alongside the films inspired by his novels. The book connects and examines these performance texts in order to explain Lawrence's key contribution to modern drama.F. R. Leavis influentially labelled the writer 'D. H. Lawrence: Novelist'. But this book foregrounds Lawrence's 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 Daughter-in-Law , and A Collier's Friday Night . It examines how Lawrence's novels are suffused with theatrical thinking, and shows how these texts were then apt to be remade into a series of films that provided some of the most iconic moments in modern cinema.The book also includes interviews with influential figures who have staged Lawrence's work, whilst a concluding chapter situates Lawrence's work alongside that of other modernist writers whose work for the stage has been neglected, including Joyce, Woolf, and Pound., This is the first major book-length study for four decades to examine the plays written by D. H. Lawrence, and the first ever book to give an in-depth analysis of Lawrence's interaction with the theatre industry during the early twentieth century. It connects and examines his performance texts, and explores his reaction to a wide-range of theatre (from the sensation dramas of working-class Eastwood to the ritual performances of the Pueblo people) in order to explain Lawrence's contribution to modern drama. F. R. Leavis influentially labelled the writer 'D. H. Lawrence: Novelist'. But this book foregrounds Lawrence's 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 Daughter-in-Law," and "A Collier's Friday Night." It examines how Lawrence's novels are suffused with theatrical thinking, revealing how Lawrence's 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 theatre-makers who have taken their own cue from Lawrence's work, and who have created original work that consciously follows Lawrence in making working-class life central to the public forum of the theatre stage."