... use of naturalistic settings and local accents makes him much closer to O'Casey than is often realised. The realistic mining plays of D.H. Lawrence are the first lasting examples of 'kitchen-sink' drama of the twentieth century. They are written mainly in dialect, and with a carefully naturalistic description of the life of the Nottinghamshire mining community where Lawrence had grown up ... . Lawrence's plays did not achieve wide recognition until the 1960s, when 'kitchen-sink' realism had found new favour. The well-known novelist was suddenly 'discovered' as a dramatist,...

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