The Theatre of D.H. Lawrence
Methuen Drama (Verlag)
978-1-4725-7038-3 (ISBN)
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 |
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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 |
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