Blithe Spirit
Blithe Spirit

Author: Noël Coward

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-12-04

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1408191520

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I will ever be grateful for the almost psychic gift that enabled me to write Blithe Spirit in five days during one of the darkest years of the war.' Written in 1941, Blithe Spirit remained the longest-running comedy in British Theatre for three decades thereafter. Plotted around the central role of one of Coward's best loved characters, a spirit medium Madame Arcati (originally performed by Margaret Rutherford) Coward's play is an escapist comedy about a man whose two previous wives return to haunt him. "A minor comic masterpiece of the lighter sort" Professor Allardyce Nicoll

From Agent to Actor
From Agent to Actor

Author: Edgar Small

Publisher: Samuel French , Incorporated

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13:

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Offers up cantankerous novelist Charles Condomine, re-married but haunted (literally) by the ghost of his late first wife, the clever and insistent Elvira who is called up by a visiting "happy medium", one Madame Arcati. As the (worldy and un- ) personalities clash, Charles' current wife Ruth is accidentally killed, "passes over," joins Elvira and the two "blithe spirits" haunt the hapless Charles into perpetuity.

Three Plays by Noel Coward: Blithe Spirit, Hay Fever [and] Private Lives
Three Plays by Noel Coward: Blithe Spirit, Hay Fever [and] Private Lives

Author: Noel Coward

Publisher: [New York] : Dell Publishing Company

Published: 1965

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13:

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Blithe Spirit is a comic play by Noël Coward, described by the author as "an improbable farce in three acts". The play concerns the socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant Madame Arcati to his house to conduct a séance, hoping to gather material for his next book.

Blithe Spirit
Blithe Spirit

Author: Noël Coward

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2023-05-04

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 1350353507

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"Some of [Coward's] most sparkling dialogue ever... This play is about something substantial - the way past relationships come back to haunt us - but it's the gossamer-like nature of the piece, its sheer levity of spirit, that makes it such an enduring achievement" - The Telegraph When socialite and novelist Charles Condomine attends a séance hosted by eccentric medium Madame Arcati, he's only hoping to gather material for his next book: he never expected to be haunted by his temperamental ex-wife, Elvira. Can Charles keep this willful spirit at bay, or will his new marriage to his second wife, Ruth, come to an untimely demise? With unforgettable characters, witty dialogue and farcical situations, Blithe Spirit ran for decades on the West End, becoming one of the most well-known plays in the British canon. This new edition is published in Methuen Drama's iconic Modern Classics series to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Coward's death and features a new introduction by Arianne Johnson Quinn.

Home Chat
Home Chat

Author: Noël Coward

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-11-08

Total Pages: 101

ISBN-13: 1350025372

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I am shirking off the chains that have shackled me for so long – I have suddenly come to realise that I am a woman – a living, passionate, pulsating woman – it never occurred to me before. Janet Ebony and her best friend, Peter Chelsworth, are innocently sharing a sleeping compartment when their train to Paris is involved in a disastrous railway accident. Outrage and scandal ensue as Janet's husband, Paul, and her fearsome mother-in-law accuse Janet and Peter of adultery. Aghast at their families' accusations, Janet and Peter decide to take revenge by inventing an adulterous affair ... Written with Noël Coward's trademark wit and insight, Home Chat is a distinctly modern comedy about female sexuality and fidelity in a society rigidly governed by decorum and reputation. This edition was published to coincide with the first revival of the play since its premiere in 1927.

Shoe Lady
Shoe Lady

Author: E. V. Crowe

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2020-03-26

Total Pages: 85

ISBN-13: 0571358101

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We've got no money but we're still in Waitrose twice a day.Because going to Tesco just makes life not even worth living. Viv has lost a shoe. They're her work shoes, her weekend shoes, her only pair of shoes, and she doesn't know what to do. The curtains are falling, her foot is bleeding, and she's starting to feel a little overwhelmed. But all will be well once she finds that missing shoe. Funny, unnerving and precise, E. V. Crowe's Shoe Lady premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in March 2020.

Noël Coward & Radclyffe Hall
Noël Coward & Radclyffe Hall

Author: Terry Castle

Publisher:

Published: 1996-01

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 9780231105965

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Politics and the Novel clarifies the role of revolutionary ideas in fiction, establishing the role of the political novel, and tracing the growth of this novel into the 20th century. Examples are drawn from such classics as Stendhal's The Red and the Black, Dostoevsky's The Possessed, Conrad's The Secret Agent, and Turgenev's Fathers and Sons. Howe examines how American novels failed to integrate ideology into their works, including DeForests' Playing the Mischief, Adams' Democracy, James' The Bostonians, and Hawthorne's The Bilthedale Romance. he also discusses political fiction after World War II: Kundera's Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Naipaul's Bend in the River, and Solzhenitsyn's The First Circle, among others.

Ladies' Day
Ladies' Day

Author: Amanda Whittington

Publisher: NHB Modern Plays

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13:

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"Exuberantly up-to-minute comedy" -The Guardian

Suite in Three Keys
Suite in Three Keys

Author: Noel Coward

Publisher:

Published: 1967

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13:

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Three plays, of varying themes, all played out against one background, a luxury hotel suite in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Blithe Spirit
Blithe Spirit

Author: Charles Osborne

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13:

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In this adaptation novel of Noel Coward's play, we return to the home of psychic Madame Arcati in an escapist comedy about relationships on both sides of the grave.