W H Auden & Christopher Isherwood

This scholarly volume contains all the dramatic works of Auden's early years. It includes the three Auden-Isherwood plays - The Dog Beneath the Skin , The Ascent of F6 and On the Frontier , and plays written by Auden alone - Paid on Both Sides and The Dance of Death . The text and notes include unpublished poems and scenes written for each of the plays, with the ending Auden wrote for the first production of The Dog Beneath the Skin . Two previously unpublished plays are included - The Enemies of a Bishop and The Chase , as are the surviving fragments of another play, The Fronny . This volume is the first in a projected complete edition of Auden's works.