A Talent to Amuse
Author: Sheridan Morley
Publisher:
Published: 2016-09-05
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9781911413677
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA biography of the writer and entertainer Noel Coward.
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A Talent to Amuse
Author: Sheridan Morley
Publisher:
Published: 1970
Total Pages:
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKMy Life with Noel Coward
Author: Graham Payn
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 1996-10-31
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9781557832474
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOther men made fabulous careers out of the opportunities Noel Coward declined. But Coward's inner compass charted him on his own course to greatness. And when he couldn't find the destination on his maps, he invented Samolo, his own South Sea island complete with its own indigenous rituals and customs. And of course, we revisit Coward's worlds constantly in revivals of his classic plays, Hay Fever, Private Lives, Tonight at 8:30, Design for Living and Blithe Spirit. This is the definitive memoir of the private Noel Coward by the only man with the compassionate insight and first-hand experience to write it. Graham Payn, star of many of Coward's shows, shared the Master's professional and private life for thirty years. When Coward kept the rest of the world at bay, Payn remained at his side as confidant and friend. No one else was as privy to Coward's doubts and dreams.
A Talent to Amuse
Author: Sheridan Morley
Publisher: Pavilion Books
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBiografie van de Britse toneelschrijver en acteur (1899-1973)
In Churchill's Shadow
Author: David Cannadine
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 019517156X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith In Churchill's Shadow, David Cannadine offers an intriguing look at ways in which perceptions of a glorious past have continued to haunt the British present, often crushing efforts to shake them off. The book centers on Churchill, a titanic figure whose influence spanned the century. Though he was the savior of modern Britain, Churchill was a creature of the Victorian age. Though he proclaimed he had not become Prime Minister to "preside over the liquidation of the British Empire," in effect he was doomed to do just that. And though he has gone down in history for his defiant orations during the crisis of World War II, Cannadine shows that for most of his career Churchill's love of rhetoric was his own worst enemy. Cannadine turns an equally insightful gaze on the institutions and individuals that embodied the image of Britain in this period: Gilbert & Sullivan, Ian Fleming, Noel Coward, the National Trust, and the Palace of Westminster itself, the home and symbol of Britain's parliamentary government. This superb volume offers a wry, sympathetic, yet penetrating look at how national identity evolved in the era of the waning of an empire.
A Talent to Annoy
Author: Nancy Mitford
Publisher:
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCoward The Playwright
Author: John Lahr
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2014-01-08
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 1472537963
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA reissue in hardback of critic John Lahr's famous 1982 study of Noël Coward's plays"Noël Coward," said Terence Rattigan, "is simply a phenomenon, and one that is unlikely to occur ever again in theatre history." A phenomenon he certainly was, and it is part of John Lahr's purpose in this book to show how that phenomenon called "Noël Coward" was largely Coward's own careful creation. Lahr's penetrating critical study of Coward's drama investigates all the major and minor plays of "The Master". Private Lives, Design for Living and Hay Fever make a fascinating group of "Comedies of Bad Manners". Blithe Spirit and Relative Values raise the "Ghost in the Fun Machine". Lahr then goes on to explore the "politics of charm" oozing through The Vortex, Easy Virtue and Present Laughter. In all Coward's plays Lahr uncovers a coherent philosophy in which charm is both the subject of Coward's comedies and the trap which made his very public life a perpetual performance.
Noël Coward
Author: Russell Jackson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2022-04-21
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1350246085
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first book-length work to draw extensively on unpublished archive material to document the composition and reception of some of Noël Coward's most significant plays. It examines his working practices as a playwright, from manuscript to performance. This study argues that, while he did not embrace any of the more radical theatrical 'isms' of his time, Coward experimented with both form and content. He adapted the familiar 'well-made' formulas, while also emphasizing theatrical self-consciousness and an exploration of radical social and sexual relationships. After an overview of Coward's career and the reception of his plays, the work discusses selected texts from successive phases of Coward's career, including some unproduced or uncompleted work and perennially popular plays such as The Vortex, Hay Fever, Private Lives, Design for Living, Blithe Spirit and Present Laughter. This study also explores how, in the aftermaths of two world wars, as major changes in social and political circumstances suggested new approaches to dramaturgy, Coward's post-1945 work failed to achieve the same success he had enjoyed in earlier periods. The final chapter examines Coward's approach to his craft in response to the new theatrical and cultural environment, and the new freedom in the treatment of homosexuality represented by Suite in Three Keys and his final, uncompleted play, Age Cannot Wither.
SPEAKING OF NOEL COWARD
Author: Alan Farley
Publisher: Author House
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 1481773259
DOWNLOAD EBOOKObituary of Mr. Farley, by Joshua Kosman, reprinted from the San Francisco chronicle of Oct. 23, 2012.
Outside the Box
Author: Maria Meindl
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2011-08-18
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 0773586385
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYears later, Maria took on the daunting task of sorting through Mona's mountain of papers to create an archive for the University of Toronto's Fisher Rare Book Library. The chaotic state of the boxes reflected Mona's flamboyant and demanding personality, yet they also drew an important picture of the life of a Canadian freelancer in the twentieth century. Mona had begun publishing poetry and features in newspapers in the 1920s and published three books of poetry in the 1940s. In the 1950s, at a time when many women were retreating from the public sphere, she had a successful radio career. Her later journals and letters recount, in agonizing detail, a downward spiral into self-doubt, poverty, and addiction. Maria soon discovered that the truth of Mona's life was even more fascinating than her stories. Outside the Box brings to life a thinly documented era in Canadian letters through the story of one passionate and conflicted woman. It also charts the journey of an unwilling archivist, coming to terms with family secrets, forgotten history, and the stories that are never told.
