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    The Married Man: “A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board”
    The Married Man: “A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board”
    The Married Man: “A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board”
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    The Married Man: “A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board”

    By D. H. Lawrence

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    For many of us DH Lawrence was a schoolboy hero. Who can forget sniggering in class at the mention of ‘Women In Love’ or ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’? Lawrence was a talented if nomadic writer whose novels were passionately received, suppressed at times and generally at odds with Establishment values. This of course did not deter him. At his death in 1930 at the young age of 44 he was more often thought of as a pornographer but in the ensuing years he has come to be more rightly regarded as one of the most imaginative writers these shores have produced. As well as his novels he was also a masterful poet (he wrote over 800 of them), a travel writer as well as an author of many classic short stories. Here we publish his play ‘The Married Man’. Once again Lawrence shows his hand as a brilliant writer. Delving into situations and peeling them back to reveal the inner heart.

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    PublisherCopyright Group
    Release dateSep 12, 2014
    ISBN9781783941544
    The Married Man: “A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board”
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    D. H. Lawrence

    David Herbert Lawrence was born on 11th September 1881 in Eastwood, a small mining village in Nottinghamshire, in the English Midlands. Despite ill health as a child and a comparatively disadvantageous position in society, he became a teacher in 1908, and took up a post in a school in Croydon, south of London. His first novel, The White Peacock, was published in 1911, and from then until his death he wrote feverishly, producing poetry, novels, essays, plays travel books and short stories, while travelling around the world, settling for periods in Italy, New Mexico and Mexico. He married Frieda Weekley in 1914 and died of tuberculosis in 1930.

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      The Married Man - D. H. Lawrence

      DH Lawrence - The Married Man

      A PLAY IN FOUR ACTS

      For many of us DH Lawrence was a schoolboy hero. Who can forget sniggering in class at the mention of ‘Women In Love’ or ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’?   Lawrence was a talented if nomadic writer whose novels were passionately received, suppressed at times and generally at odds with Establishment values.  This of course did not deter him.  

      At his death in 1930 at the young age of 44 he was more often thought of as a pornographer but in the ensuing years he has come to be more rightly regarded as one of the most imaginative writers these shores have produced. 

      As well as his novels he was also a masterful poet (he wrote over 800 of them), a travel writer as well as an author of many classic short stories. 

      Here we publish his play ‘The Married Man’. Once again Lawrence shows his hand as a brilliant writer. Delving into situations and peeling them back to reveal the inner heart.

      Index Of Contents

      Characters

      Act I - A bedroom in Mrs Plum's cottage

      Act II - The dining-room in the house of the Misses Calladine

      Act III - Kitchen at Mr Magneer's farm

      Act IV - The same as Act I

      DH Lawrence – A Short Biography

      DH Lawrence – A Concise Bibliography

      CHARACTERS

      DR GEORGE GRAINGER

      WILLIAM BRENTNALL

      MRS PLUM

      JACK MAGNEE

      ANNIE CALLADINE, ADA CALLADINE, EMILY CALLADINE, Sisters

      SALLY MAGNEER, Jack's sister

      MR MAGNEER, father of Jack and Sally

      ELSA SMITH, Brentnall's fiancée

      GLADYS

      TOM, husband of Gladys

      ETHEL, Grainger's wife

      ACT I - A bedroom in Mrs Plum's cottage

      ACT II - The dining-room in the house of the Misses Calladine

      ACT III - Kitchen at Mr Magneer's farm

      ACT IV - The same as Act I

      ACT I

      A bedroom shared by GRAINGER and BRENTNALL in the cottage of MRS PLUM.  Both men are dressing.  GRAINGER goes to the door and calls to MRS PLUM.

      GRAINGER:  Bring me some collars up.

      BRENTNALL:  And what are you going to do?

      GRAINGER:  God knows.

      BRENTNALL:  How much money have you got?

      GRAINGER:  Four damn quid.

      BRENTNALL:  Hm! You're well off, considering.  But what DO you think of doing?

      GRAINGER:  I don't know.

      BRENTNALL:  Where do you think of going Saturday?

      GRAINGER:  Hell.

      BRENTNALL:  Too expensive, my boy, four quid won't carry you there.

      GRAINGER:  Oh chuck it, Billy.

      BRENTNALL:  What the Hanover's the good of chucking it?  You're not a blooming cock robin, to take no thought for the morrow.

      Enter MRS PLUM with the collars.

      MRS PLUM:  Gee, I'm sorry I forgot 'em, Dr Grainger.  I'm ever so sorry.

      GRAINGER:  Don't fret yourself about that, Mrs Plum.  You're all right, you are.

      MRS PLUM:  Gee, but I can't get it out of my head, that there what you've just told me.

      GRAINGER:  You want to sneeze hard, Mrs Plum.  That'll shift it.

      MRS PLUM (laughing):  Hee-hee, hark you there now.  And have you got rid of it off your mind, Dr Grainger?

      GRAINGER:  My head's as clear as a bell o' brass, Mrs Plum. Nothing ails me.

      MRS PLUM:  My word, it doesn't.  My word, but you're looking well, you're a sight better than when you come.  Isn't he, Mr Brentnall?

      BRENTNALL:  He's too healthy for anything, Mrs Plum, he's so healthy, he'd walk slap into a brick wall, and never know he'd hurt himself.

      MRS PLUM:  Gee, I don't know.  But that there as you told me, Dr Grainger -

      GRAINGER:  Here, you go and see if that's Jack Magneer, and if it is, let him come up.

      MRS PLUM:  You're a caution, you are that, Dr Grainger.

      Exit MRS PLUM.

      BRENTNALL:  The girl is gone on you, the kid is yours.  You are a married man, and you mean to abide by your family?

      GRAINGER:  What the devil else is there to do?

      BRENTNALL:  Very well.  Have you bothered about another job?

      GRAINGER:  No, I did when I was in Wolverhampton.  Look what a fiendish business it is, offering yourself and being refused like a dog.

      BRENTNALL:  So you've taken no steps.

      GRAINGER:  No.

      BRENTNALL:  And you've absolutely no idea what you're going to do on Saturday, when you've finished here?

      GRAINGER:  No.

      BRENTNALL:  And yet

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