The complete works of W.H. Auden : plays and other dramatic writings, 1928-1938 / W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood; Edward Mendelson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Auden, W. H., Author.

Isherwood, Christopher, Author.

Contributor:

Mendelson, Edward, Editor.

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library ; 5441

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (715 pages)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This volume contains Auden and Christopher Isherwood's dramatic extravaganzas The Dog Beneath the Skin, the Ascent of F 6, and On the Frontier. It also includes the two versions of Paid on Both Sides--which are so different as to constitute two works--and Auden's satiric revue The Dance of Death. Two plays appear in print for the first time, Auden and Isherwood's The Enemies of a Bishop and Auden's The Chase. Also included are Auden's prose and verse written for doucmentary films, a cabaret sketch, and an unpublished radio script. Many of the texts include poems by the young Auden that have never been published before. The extensive historical and textual notes trace the complex history of the production and revision of these plays, including full texts and rewritten scenes.During the years when these works were created, Auden moved from a "poetry of isolation" to more expansive and public writing. After he left Oxford at age twenty-one, during the summer of 1928, he wrote the tragicomic charade Paid on Both Sides. During the next ten years, until he left England for America, he created the increasingly ambitious works for stage, film, and broadcast that appear in this volume. The most important of these plays were written in collaboration with Isherwood. As the world political situation worsened, Isherwood and Auden's style combined the energy of popular entertainment with the urgency of sacramental ritual.Edard Mendelson is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and the author of Early Auden (Viking). He is the editor of two volumes of Aduen's poetry, Collected Poems (Random House) and The English Auden (Random House).Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

THE TEXT OF THIS EDITION

Paid on Both Sides [first version] (1928)

Paid on Both Sides [second version] (1928)

The Enemies of a Bishop (1929)

The Dance of Death (1933)

The Chase (1934)

The Dog Beneath the Skin (1935)

The Ascent of F 6 (1936)

On the Frontier (1937-38)

Coal Face (1935)

Night Mail (1935)

Negroes (1935)

Beside the Seaside (1935)

The Way to the Sea (1936)

The Londoners (1938?)

Alfred (1936)

Hadrian's Wall (1937)

I. Auden and Isherwood's "Preliminary Statement" (1929)

II. The Fronny: Fragments of a Lost Play (1930)

III. Auden and the Group Theatre

IV. Auden and Theatre at the Downs School

V. Two Reported Lectures

Paid on Both Sides

The Enemies of a Bishop

The Dance of Death

The Chase

The Dog Beneath the Skin

The Ascent of F 6

On the Frontier

Documentary Films

Cabaret and Wireless

INDEX OF TITLES AND FIRST LINES

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

0-691-19807-1

OCLC:

1132670116