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 Lawrences 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 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 Daughter-in-Law; and A Colliers Friday Night. It examines how Lawrences novels are suffused with theatrical thinking; revealing how Lawrences fictions ndash; from his first published work to the last story that he wrote before his death ndash; 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 Lawrences 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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