The Plays
Part of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence
- Real Author: D. H. Lawrence
- Editors:
- Hans-Wilhelm Schwarze, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany
- John Worthen, University of Nottingham
- Date Published: April 2015
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107561502
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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 very 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in his lifetime, and only three were published: the play often regarded as his best, The Daughter-in-Law, remaining unpublished until 1965.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. Published in two volumes.
Read more- 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
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- Date Published: April 2015
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107561502
- length: 952 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 54 mm
- weight: 1.2kg
- contains: 1 b/w illus. 10 music examples
- availability: Available
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.
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