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Collected plays / Noël Coward ; introduced by Sheridan Morley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coward, Noël, 1899-1973.
- Series:
- Coward, Noël, 1899-1973. Selections (Methuen Publishing Ltd.) Works.
- Methuen world classics
- Coward collection
- World Classics
- Standardized Title:
- Plays
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (511 p.)
- Edition:
- Special edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Volume Four of Noël Coward's plays contains a selection of Coward's plays from the thirties and forties which includes Blithe Spirit , a comedy that centres around the spirit medium Madame Arcati. The play that mocks sudden death was produced at precisely the moment when bombs were bringing it to Britain ""I shall ever be grateful, for the almost psychic gift that enabled me to write Blithe Spirit in five days during one of the darkest years of the war."" The play was for years the longest-running comedy in the history of British theatre. Present Laughter follows the life of Garry Essendine, a
- Contents:
- 1. Hay fever ; The vortex ; Fallen angels ; Easy virtue
- 2. Private lives ; Bitter-sweet ; The marquise ; Post-mortem
- 3. Design for living ; Cavalcade ; Conversation piece ; Tonight at 8.30. Hands across the sea ; Still life ; Fumed oak
- 4. Blithe spirit ; Present laughter ; This happy breed ; Tonight at 8.30. Ways and means ; The astonished heart ; "Red peppers"
- 5. Relative values ; Look after Lulu! ; Waiting in the wings ; Suite in three keys
- 6. Semi-monde ; Point Valaine ; South sea bubble ; Nude with violin
- 7. Quadrille ; "Peace in our time" ; Tonight at 8.30. We were dancing ; Shadow play ; Family album ; Star chamber.
- Notes:
- Originally published: in print in Plays four. London: Methuen Drama, 1979.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Mar. 4, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 9781408163030
- 1408163039
- 9781408177341
- 140817734X
- OCLC:
- 861081492
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