Collected Plays: Two: Private Lives: Bitter-Sweet: the Marquise: Post-Mortem : Introduced By Sheridan Morley

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coward, Noel

Series:

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

The Coward collection

Standardized Title:

Plays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Playwriting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

London : Methuen, 1986.

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:

Preliminaries and Introduction omitted. The following plays have been taken from this source: Bitter-Sweet Post-Mortem Private Lives The Marquise.

ISBN:

9781408177327

1408177323