Noël Coward collected plays. Two / Noël Coward ; introduced by Sheridan Morley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coward, Noël, 1899-1973.

Contributor:

Morley, Sheridan, 1941-2007.

Series:

Coward, Noel, 1899-1973. Selections (Methuen Publishing Ltd.) Works.

The Coward collection

Standardized Title:

Plays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drama--20th century.

Drama.

English drama--20th century.

English drama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, [1999]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The plays in this volume demonstrate the extraordinary skill and versatility Coward's writing achieved in the late 1920s. The volume contains his best-loved classic, Private Lives, which was an immeditate hit when it was first staged in 1930. Coward's sparkling dialogue and repartee have ensured the play's popularity ever since. Of Bitter-Sweet in 1929 Noël Coward wrote that it was "a musical that gave me more complete satisfaction than anything else I had yet written. Not especially on acount of its dialogue or its lyrics or its music or its production but as a whole." The Marquise is an "eighteenth century comedy" filled with maids and duels, whilst Post-Mortem is a vilification of war that contains some of Coward's most powerful writing.

Contents:

Private lives

Bitter-sweet

The marquise

Post-mortem.

Notes:

"First published ... in 1979 by Eyre Methuen Ltd".

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 3, 2013).

Contains:

Coward, Noël, 1899-1973. Bitter-sweet.

Coward, Noel, 1899-1973. Marquise.

Coward, Noel, 1899-1973. Post-mortem.

Coward, Noel, 1899-1973. Private lives.

ISBN:

9781408177327

1408177323