The Defense for Lady Chatterley’s Lover

The Defense for Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Available on Prime Video, The Great Courses Signature Collection
S1 E3: At the time of his death in 1930, British author D. H. Lawrence was widely viewed as one of the greatest writers of the English language. Yet, as you will see here, this popularity did not prevent some readers from taking offense to his frank depictions of sexuality, resulting in a censorship and an obscenity trial over his final novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover.