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Author:   James Moran (University of Nottingham, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Methuen Drama
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.369kg
ISBN:  

9781472570376

ISBN 10:   1472570375
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   19 November 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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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 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

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

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

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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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