The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Plays and Other Dramatic Writings, 1928-1938 Auden, W. H.; Isherwood, Christopher and Mendelson, Edward
Language: English
Published by Princeton University Press, 1988
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- Title
- The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Plays and Other Dramatic Writings, 1928-1938 Auden, W. H.; Isherwood, Christopher and Mendelson, Edward
- Author
- Auden, W. H.; Isherwood, Christopher; Mendelson, Edward [Editor]
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Publication year
- 1988
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0691067406
- ISBN 13
- 9780691067407
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Item weight
- 39 ounces
In 1928 Stephen Spender hand-printed thirty copies of a small volume of poems by his friend W. H. Auden--the first published book by a man who was to become the dominant literary figure of his generation and one of the century's greatest poets. Sixty years later, Princeton University Press inaugurates an eight-volume edition of the complete works of Auden, which is intended to serve as the definitive text for all the works Auden published or intended to publish in the form in which he expected to see them printed: his plays and other drama, libretti, essays and reviews, and poems.
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden will provide a unique opportunity to solve the numerous textual problems connected with the severe revisions Auden made in his own works. The texts will be newly edited from Auden's manuscripts by Edward Mendelson, the literary executor of the Auden estate. As presented in this edition, they will be absolutely clean, with the notes appearing only at the ends of the volumes, along with variant readings from all published versions, as well as hitherto unpublished drafts or revisions. Also included will be introductions placing the works in the context of literary traditions and relating them to Auden's life and times.
As planned, the first volume of the series contains plays and other drama, and the second volume will include the libretti. The essays and reviews will appear in the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth volumes, and the seventh and eighth volumes will contain the poems.
Plays and Other Dramatic Writings, 1928-1938
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 documentary 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 of 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.
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This collection is, above all, fun to read, full as it is of memorable high jinks. . . . There is a fertility of invention not only in incident but in writing itself . . . Auden was always a virtuoso, something of a showoff--and it is a pleasure to watch him showing off. -- Los Angeles Times,
This collection is, above all, fun to read, full as it is of memorable high jinks. . . . There is a fertility of invention not only in incident but in writing itself . . . Auden was always a virtuoso, something of a showoff--and it is a pleasure to watch him showing off. -- "Los Angeles Times,
"This collection is, above all, fun to read, full as it is of memorable high jinks. . . . There is a fertility of invention not only in incident but in writing itself . . . Auden was always a virtuoso, something of a showoff--and it is a pleasure to watch him showing off."--Los Angeles Times,
-This collection is, above all, fun to read, full as it is of memorable high jinks. . . . There is a fertility of invention not only in incident but in writing itself . . . Auden was always a virtuoso, something of a showoff--and it is a pleasure to watch him showing off.---Los Angeles Times,
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