Coward Plays: 2
Coward Plays: 2

Author: Noël Coward

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2014-05-01

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1408162180

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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 Noël 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.

Design for Living
Design for Living

Author: Noël Coward

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2014-05-08

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1408191490

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'The actual facts are so simple. I love you. You love me. You love Otto. I love Otto. Otto loves you. Otto loves me. There now! Start to unravel from there.' Design for Living is a wickedly witty dark romantic comedy by Noel Coward. Initially banned in the UK, this provocative play portrays three amoral, glib and stylish characters and their hopelessly inescapable, if also unconventional, emotional entanglement. From 1930s bohemian Paris to the dizzying heights of Manhattan society, a tempestuous love triangle unravels between a vivacious interior designer, Gilda, playwright Leo and artist Otto - three people unashamedly and passionately in love with each other. They are trapped in what Coward called 'a three-sided erotic hodge podge.' With Coward's trademark piquant style, this lively, funny but also atypical play looks at dazzling, egotistical creatures and their self-destructive dependence on each other. Exploring themes of bisexuality, celebrity, success and self-obsession, Design for Living is a stylish and scandalous comedy.

Coward Plays: 8
Coward Plays: 8

Author: Noël Coward

Publisher: Methuen Drama

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13:

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This is the eighth volume of plays in the Coward collection.

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.

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.

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

Fallen Angels
Fallen Angels

Author: Noel Coward

Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.

Published: 1958

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9780573608803

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The love and friendship between two married couples and best friends are put to the test when a postcard arrives with a picture of Capri on one side, and on the other, news of the imminent arrival of a certain handsome Frenchman.

This Happy Breed
This Happy Breed

Author: Noel Coward

Publisher: London : S. French

Published: 1945

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13:

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"Copyright in renewal 1973 by Noèel Coward"--Title page verso.