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COWARD PLAYS: 2
PRIVATE LIVES; BITTER-SWEET; THE MARQUISE; POST-MORTEM |
| By: |
Noel Coward |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£17.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1408162180 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781408162187 |
| Publisher: |
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC |
| Pub. date: |
1 May, 2014 |
| Series: |
World Classics |
| Description: |
The second volume in the Coward Collection, including Private Lives, Bitter-Sweet, The Marquise and Post-Mortem. |
| Synopsis: |
The plays in this volume demonstrate the extraordinary skill andversatility Coward's writing achieved in the late 1920s.The volume containshis best-loved classic, Private Lives, which was an immeditate hit whenit was first staged in 1930. Coward's sparkling dialogue and reparteehave ensured the play's popularity ever since. Of Bitter-Sweet in 1929 Noel Coward wrote that it was "a musical that gaveme more complete satisfaction than anything else I had yet written. Notespecially on acount of its dialogue or its lyrics or its music or itsproduction but as a whole." The Marquise is an "eighteenth centurycomedy" filled with maids and duels, whilst Post-Mortem is avilification of war that contains some of Coward's most powerfulwriting. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Methuen Drama |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |