The Daughter-in-Law

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Bloomsbury Academic, 2002 - Drama - 95 pages
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How is a woman ever to have a husband when the men all belong to their mothers?

During the miner's strike of 1912, newly-married Minnie discovers her husband Luther has made another woman pregnant. The drama reaches boiling point as Minnie struggles to reclaim her husband - not only from her rival but also from his formidable mother.

Best known as a great novelist, Lawrence was also a remarkable playwright, heir to and equal of Strindberg and Chekhov. His passionate belief in the power of intimacy and sexuality rings out in his finest play, one of the most memorable of the 20th century.

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An interesting play, marred by the writing out of dialect that makes it close to unreadable - and probably unproducible, unless it came with a full dictionary of what many of these words mean. I was ... Read full review

Contents

Section 1
7
Section 2
53
Section 3
68
Copyright

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Common terms and phrases

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About the author (2002)

David Herbert Lawrence was born in Nottinghamshire. He made his reputation with the semi-autobiographical Sons and Lovers (1913).

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TitleThe Daughter-in-Law
Absolute classics
Modern plays
Oberon Modern Plays
AuthorD.H. Lawrence
Editionreprint
PublisherBloomsbury Academic, 2002
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized3 Mar 2008
ISBN1840023406, 9781840023404
Length95 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Drama / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Drama / General
  
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