The Theatre of D.H. Lawrence

Dramatic Modernist and Theatrical Innovator

James Moran (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2015
Methuen Drama (Verlag)
978-1-4725-7038-3 (ISBN)

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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.

James Moran is Head of Drama in the School of English Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the author of The Theatre of Seán O'Casey (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2013). His other books include: Staging the Easter Rising (2005), and as editor Four Irish Rebel Plays (2007).

Acknowledgements
Foreword by Sir Richard Eyre
Synopsis
Introduction. The Significance of Lawrence’s Plays: Shifts in Reputation from 1930 to 2014
Chapter 1. Writing Lawrence’s Plays: Becoming a Dramatist, 1885 to 1910
Chapter 2. The Frustration of Staging: Dramatic Struggles, 1911 to 1930
Chapter 3. The Drama of Lawrence’s Prose Fiction: the Playwright as Novelist
Chapter 4. Lawrence’s Theatrical Development: Realist and Experimentalist Crosscurrents
Chapter 5. A Director’s Perspective: Peter Gill, in Conversation with James Moran
Chapter 6. A Playwright’s Perspective: Stephen Lowe
Chapter 7. A Screenwriter’s Perspective: William Ivory
Chapter 8. A Postcolonial Perspective: Soudabeh Ananisarab
Conclusion
Appendix: Timeline
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.11.2015
Reihe/Serie	Critical Companions
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4725-7038-3 / 1472570383
ISBN-13	978-1-4725-7038-3 / 9781472570383
Zustand	Neuware