Coward Plays: 2: Private Lives; Bitter-Sweet; The Marquise by Noel Coward
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Coward Plays: 2: Private Lives; Bitter-Sweet; The Marquise by Noel Coward
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like New
- Seller Notes
- “a few words written on first page- otherwise mint condition.”
- ISBN
- 9780413460806
- EAN
- 9780413460806
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-10
0413460800
ISBN-13
9780413460806
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1670782
Product Key Features
Book Title
Coward Plays: 2 : Private Lives; Bitter-Sweet; the Marquise; Post-Mortem
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year
1979
Genre
Drama
Book Series
World Classics Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
12.2 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Synopsis
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., 'The second volume in the Coward Collection. The plays in this volume demonstrate the extraordinary skill and versatility Coward''s writing achieved in the late 1920s: it contains his best-loved classic, Private Lives, which was an immediate hit when it was first staged in 1930, Coward''s sparkling dialogue and repartee have ensured the play''s popularity ever since. Set in France in the late 1920s, the plot centres around divorcees Amanda and Elyot who are honeymooning in the same hotel with their new spouses. Their chance meeting reminds them of why they fell in love, but also why they couldn''t live together. It was recently revived at the National Theatre starring Juliet Stevenson and Anton Lesser. It was said to be the funniest play to have adorned the English theatre in this century. Of Bitter-Sweet in 1929, Coward wrote that it was ''a musical that gave me more complete satisfaction than anything else I had yet written. Not especially on account 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.....''He is simply a phenomenon, and one that is unlikely to occur ever again in theatre history'' Terence Rattigan', 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 No l 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., The second volume in the Coward Collection, including Private Lives, Bitter-Sweet, The Marquise and Post-Mortem.
LC Classification Number
PR5366
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