The theatre of D.H. Lawrence

• Verfasst von: Moran, James [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The theatre of D.H. Lawrence
• Titelzusatz: dramatic modernist and theatrical innovator
• Verf.angabe: James Moran ; Series editors: Patrick Lonergan and Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
• Verlagsort: London ; New Delhi ; New York ; Sydney
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
• Jahr: 2015
• Umfang: xv, 245 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Diagramme
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Critical companions
• Fussnoten: Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 229-238
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-7038-3
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-7037-6
• Schlagwörter: (p)Lawrence, D. H. / (s)Drama / (s)Theater
• Schlagwörter: (p)Lawrence, D. H. / (s)Theater / (s)Drama
• Sprache: eng
• RVK-Notation: HM 3255
• K10plus-PPN: 161695308X

Abstract

"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'."--

Abstract

"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"--