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The Theatre of D.H. Lawrence - Dramatic Modernist and Theatrical Innovator (Paperback)
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The Theatre of D.H. Lawrence - Dramatic Modernist and Theatrical Innovator (Paperback)
Series: Critical Companions
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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.
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