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Theatre of D.H. Lawrence Dramatic Modernist and Theatrical Innovator

Moran, James
Heftet / 2015 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781472570376
Publisert
2015-11-19
Utgiver
Vendor
Methuen Drama
Vekt
369 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
264

Forfatter
Moran, James

Om bidragsyterne

James Moran is Head of Drama in the School of English Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the author of The Theatre of Seán O'Casey (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2013). His other books include: Staging the Easter Rising (2005), and as editor Four Irish Rebel Plays (2007).

Theatre of D.H. Lawrence Dramatic Modernist and Theatrical Innovator

Moran, James
Heftet / 2015 / Engelsk
Moran, James
Heftet / 2015 / Engelsk
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Moran provides a thorough discussion of the working dynamics of [Lawrence’s] plays and displays a keen affinity for demonstrating the theatrical dependency of Lawrence's novels. After an introductory overview of Lawrence and his cultural milieu, Moran devotes chapters to Lawrence's transition into playwriting, his difficulties with the genre, specific correlations with his novels, and his maturation as a dramatist. … Replete with notes and an extended bibliography, Moran's study enhances appreciation of an important facet of Lawrence's artistry. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals.

CHOICE

[A] useful companion to the theatrical works.

Times Literary Supplement

Moran covers a wide range of material succinctly, effectively introducing the plays to the many who will be unfamiliar with them, and offering concisely pertinent readings for fully fledged Lawrentians. This accessible volume will be useful to students and scholars of Lawrence, but is also accessible to a general readership. It deserves to contribute towards a resituating, or perhaps even rehabilitation, of Lawrence as a key modernist author not only of novels, but of some compelling, evocative and innovative drama.

Studies in Theatre and Performance

Se alle

Lawrence wrote eight finished plays and left two unfinished. In The Theatre of D.H. Lawrence, James Moran seeks to understand his development as a dramatist ... This book greatly expands how Lawrence is understood and should encourage further scholarship into Lawrence's plays and the impact that theatre had on him as a writer.

The Year's Work in English Studies

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.
Les mer
Acknowledgements 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 Appendix: Timeline Endnotes Bibliography Index
Les mer
The first book-length study to examine the plays written by D.H. Lawrence alongside the films inspired by his novels.
Provides a reassessment of one of the best-known modernist writers, highlighting a set of unfamiliar performance contexts
Ranging across the 20th and 21st centuries, Methuen Drama's Critical Companions series covers playwrights, theatre makers, movements and periods of international theatre and performance. Drawing on original research, each volume provides a critical survey and analysis of a body of work by one author, giving attention to both text and performance. In addition, each book features several complementary scholarly essays and interviews with practitioners to provide alternative perspectives on the subject.
Les mer

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Moran provides a thorough discussion of the working dynamics of [Lawrence’s] plays and displays a keen affinity for demonstrating the theatrical dependency of Lawrence's novels. After an introductory overview of Lawrence and his cultural milieu, Moran devotes chapters to Lawrence's transition into playwriting, his difficulties with the genre, specific correlations with his novels, and his maturation as a dramatist. … Replete with notes and an extended bibliography, Moran's study enhances appreciation of an important facet of Lawrence's artistry. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals.

CHOICE

[A] useful companion to the theatrical works.

Times Literary Supplement

Moran covers a wide range of material succinctly, effectively introducing the plays to the many who will be unfamiliar with them, and offering concisely pertinent readings for fully fledged Lawrentians. This accessible volume will be useful to students and scholars of Lawrence, but is also accessible to a general readership. It deserves to contribute towards a resituating, or perhaps even rehabilitation, of Lawrence as a key modernist author not only of novels, but of some compelling, evocative and innovative drama.

Studies in Theatre and Performance

Se alle

Lawrence wrote eight finished plays and left two unfinished. In The Theatre of D.H. Lawrence, James Moran seeks to understand his development as a dramatist ... This book greatly expands how Lawrence is understood and should encourage further scholarship into Lawrence's plays and the impact that theatre had on him as a writer.

The Year's Work in English Studies

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.
Les mer
Acknowledgements 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 Appendix: Timeline Endnotes Bibliography Index
Les mer
The first book-length study to examine the plays written by D.H. Lawrence alongside the films inspired by his novels.
Provides a reassessment of one of the best-known modernist writers, highlighting a set of unfamiliar performance contexts
Ranging across the 20th and 21st centuries, Methuen Drama's Critical Companions series covers playwrights, theatre makers, movements and periods of international theatre and performance. Drawing on original research, each volume provides a critical survey and analysis of a body of work by one author, giving attention to both text and performance. In addition, each book features several complementary scholarly essays and interviews with practitioners to provide alternative perspectives on the subject.
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781472570376
Publisert
2015-11-19
Utgiver
Vendor
Methuen Drama
Vekt
369 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
264

Forfatter
Moran, James

Om bidragsyterne

James Moran is Head of Drama in the School of English Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the author of The Theatre of Seán O'Casey (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2013). His other books include: Staging the Easter Rising (2005), and as editor Four Irish Rebel Plays (2007).

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