Private lives ; Bitter sweet ; The marquise ; Post-Mortem
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Private lives ; Bitter sweet ; The marquise ; Post-Mortem
（Methuen's world dramatists series, . Plays ; 2）（A Methuen paperback）
Methuen London, 1986
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Plays : two
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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.
Table of Contents
- Private Lives
- Bitter-Sweet
- The Marquise
- Post-Mortem
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