The plays
By: D.H. Lawrence ; edited by Hans-Wilhelm Schwarze and John Worthen.
Contributors: Schwarze, Hans-Wilhelm, 1939-; Worthen, John.
Series: The works of D.H. Lawrence
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 824
Description: "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 The play often regarded as his best, The Daughter-in-Law, remained unpublished until 1965.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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.