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