{"product_id":"theatre-of-d-h-lawrence","title":"Theatre of D.H. Lawrence","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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: \u003ci\u003eThe Widowing of Mrs Holroyd\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Daughter-in-Law\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Collier's Friday Night\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55612449096024,"sku":"9781472570376","price":34.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781472570376_1779b55b-e99f-445c-b4e9-7744ab09fba8.jpg?v=1770919240","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/theatre-of-d-h-lawrence","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}