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Towards a New Version of D. H. Lawrence's The Daughter-in-Law: Scholarly Edition or Play Text?

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From: Yearbook of English Studies
Date: 19990101
Author:WORTHEN, JOHN

D. H. Lawrence's play The Daughter-in-Law, written in January 1913 but neither staged nor published in his lifetime, has been in print for more than thirty years.[1] It made a brief appearance on the stage in the middle 1930s as My Son's My Son, in a text revised and at times rewritten by Walter Greenwood; this version was performed in London and abroad. But the play then vanished from public view, appearing in print for the first time in The Complete Plays of D. H. Lawrence, published by Heinemann in 1965.

The middle 1960s was exactly the time, of course, when Lawrence was ...

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