| Author | : Noël Coward |
| File Size | : 55,8 Mb |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 01 May 2014 |
| ISBN | : 9781408162187 |
| Pages | : 320 pages |
Coward Plays 2 by Noël Coward Book PDF 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.