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: #230817 in Books
• Published on: 2003-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Customer Reviews

Book of plays
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The book was as described, and it came in good time.

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...