Product Description

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 Noel 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #260008 in Books
• Published on: 2003-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Customer Reviews

Noel Coward
Great book of plays. Noel Coward is simply one of the wittiest playwrights in Contemporary Drama. The book is a very nice compendium of plays. I am a fan of "Private Lives" and here it comes in the package with the three other plays, all of which are worthy of a good read. Also, for Noel Coward fans in the New York vicinity, his play "Design for Living" will be appearing on the stage...