The theatre of D. H. Lawrence : dramatic modernist and innovator / James Moran.

Author/creator Moran, James, 1978- author.
Format Book
PublicationLondon ; New York : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015.
Descriptionxv, 245 pages ; 23 cm.
Subjects
Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930--Dramatic works.

SeriesCritical companions
Critical companions (London, England) ^A1179442
Contents Machine generated contents note: 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.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2015010417
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