The Plays
The Plays
Hans-Wilhelm Schwarze , Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany
John Worthen , University of Nottingham
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USDThis first complete edition of Lawrence's plays contains eight full-length plays and two fragments. Six of the plays, written between 1909 and 1913, are arguably among Lawrence's finest early work. Yet Lawrence never saw a play of his own on the stage. Only two were performed in his lifetime, and only three published. Since then, the plays have existed only in faulty or incomplete texts; this edition, drawn from Lawrence's manuscripts, makes it possible for the first time to read and to stage Lawrence's plays as he wrote them.
- The first complete edition of Lawrence's plays
- An edition based on original manuscripts and typescripts, making it possible for the first time to read and to stage Lawrence's plays as he wrote them
- A major addition to acclaimed Cambridge edition of Lawrence's works
Reviews & endorsements
"The edition provides complete texts of the plays based on careful scrutiny of the extant manuscripts and typescripts... The Introduction offers a wealth of interesting material... The new Cambridge edition of The Plays provides a model for scholarly publishing. It provides authoritative texts and everything else that the student of Lawrence's drama could require for a study of the plays." Nora Stovel, The Book Reviews
Product details
August 1999Hardback
9780521242776
952 pages
224 × 146 × 53 mm
1.19kg
1 b/w illus. 10 music examples
Replaced by 9780521007047
Table of Contents
- Chronology
- Cue-titles
- Introduction
- Conventions adopted for the printing of texts
- A Collier's Friday Night
- The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd
- The Merry-go-Round
- The Married Man
- The Fight for Barbara
- The Daughter-in-Law
- Preface to Touch and Go
- Touch and Go
- David
- Appendix 1. Edward Garnett's introduction to A Collier's Friday Night
- Appendix 2. Edwin Björkman's introduction to The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd
- Appendix 3. Altitude
- Appendix 4. Noah's Flood
- Appendix 5. The original ending to David
- The music for David
- The German texts of David
- Explanatory notes
- Glossary of dialect, regional, slang and archaic words
- Textual apparatus and silent emendations
- Line-end hyphenation
- A note on pounds, shillings and pence.
