The Rocking Horse Winner: Play (Dramascripts) [Spiral-bound]

Ben Berenson (Author), D. H. Lawrence (Author), Ben Benenson (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1992 | ISBN-10: 0174323875 | ISBN-13: 978-0174323877

"Dramascripts" are intended for use in secondary schools, amateur theatrical groups and youth clubs. This play is an adaptation of D.H.Lawrence's "The Rocking-Horse Winner", a moving short story which deals with greed and the dangers of outright materialism.

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 52 pages
• Publisher: Nelson Thornes Ltd (December 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0174323875
• ISBN-13: 978-0174323877
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars Satisfying, January 19, 2008

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AR (California, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rocking Horse Winner (Travelman Short Stories) (Paperback)

What D.H. Lawrence did so well in this short story was how he fully depicts the potent yet unverbalized influences on the psyche of the boy, as well as the subsequent changes in his feeling and behavior. If I were asked to explain the story to a third person, I would say, "Read it!"

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Death rock..., February 4, 2008

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Draconis Blackthorne (The Haunted Noctuary) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Rocking-Horse Winner (Paperback)

The Rocking Horse Winner is truly a tragic tale about a boy whose golden heart and gift for clairvoyance ultimately led to his demise, because of excessive, counter-productive greed and confusion besetting his mother, who adhered to a misunderstanding of the application of motivational greed, as opposed to an unbalanced obsession. Love and luck were equated according to the amount of money in the coffers.

By a series of prognostications, the boy did bring the precious cash forth, all the while rocking violently on his magical rocking horse, which was actually a tool of mediation and focus for him to assuage the winning horse in the day's race. He was eventually driven insane by the a-dolt's pre-occupation until his demise.

Ironically, in one scene, his mother admonished him to cast away his childish ways, when she herself did not realize her own compulsion.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A poetic Injustice, June 3, 2003

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Will Labet (Skidmore Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rocking Horse Winner (Creative Short Stories) (Library Binding)

This story is one of tragedy, and loss. A boy doing anything to gain his mothers approval in one way or another. As some would say it revolves around lust, but those are the few whom...nevermind. This would be a very complex story for almost everyone on a mature level. Though some score this story pretty low I give it a 5 out of 5. So if I were you (but i'm not) I would pick this story up and analyze it for all its worth I swear you will see everything in a new light and feel what so many others do.