Research Catalog

Title

The plays / D.H. Lawrence ; edited by Hans-Wilhelm Schwarze and John Worthen.

Author

Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930

Publication

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

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Additional Authors

• Schwarze, Hans-Wilhelm, 1939-
• Worthen, John

Description

cxxvi, 824 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"This first complete edition of Lawrence's plays contains eight full-length plays and two fragments. Six of the plays - A Collier's Friday Night, The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd, The Merry-go-Round, The Married Man, The Fight for Barbara and The Daughter-in-Law - were written between 1909 and 1913, the period when Lawrence was establishing himself as a writer. They are arguably among his best early work. Yet Lawrence never saw a play of his own on the stage. Only two were performed in his lifetime, and only three were published. The play often regarded as his best, The Daughter-in-Law, remained unpublished until 1965. Up to now, the plays have existed only in faulty or incomplete texts; this edition, drawn from Lawrence's own surviving manuscripts and typescripts, makes it possible for the first time to read and to stage Lawrence's plays as he wrote them."--Jacket.

Series Statement

• The works of D.H. Lawrence
• Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930. Works. 1979

Subject

Lawrence, D. H. 1885-1930 > Criticism, Textual

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Collier's Friday night -- Widowing of Mrs. Holyroyd -- Merry-go-round -- Married man -- Fight for Barbara: a comedy -- Daughter-in-law -- Touch and go -- David.

ISBN

0521242770

LCCN

^^^98008068^

OCLC

39182540

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library