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Coward The Playwright

2014-01-08 Drama
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Release : 2014-01-08
Genre : Drama
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Book Synopsis Coward The Playwright by : John Lahr

Download or read book Coward The Playwright written by John Lahr. This book was released on 2014-01-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 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.

Coward the Playwright

2002-04 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2002-04
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 147/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Coward the Playwright by : John Lahr

Download or read book Coward the Playwright written by John Lahr. This book was released on 2002-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An adept and well-focused study of Noel Coward-as-playwright by award winning New Yorker critic John Lahr.

Coward Plays: 2

2014-05-01 Drama
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Release : 2014-05-01
Genre : Drama
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Book Synopsis Coward Plays: 2 by : Noël Coward

Download or read book Coward Plays: 2 written by Noël Coward. This book was released on 2014-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Coward Playwright

1999
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Release : 1999
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Book Rating : 088/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Coward Playwright written by John Lahr. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Coward Plays: Nine

2018-02-22 Performing Arts
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Release : 2018-02-22
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 126/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Coward Plays: Nine by : Noël Coward

Download or read book Coward Plays: Nine written by Noël Coward. This book was released on 2018-02-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coward Plays: 9 offers up a fascinating selection of Noël Coward's lesser-known works. Salute to the Brave/Time Remembered (1940) follows Leila Heseldyne after she has fled to America, leaving a war-torn Britain and her husband behind; Long Island Sound(1947) sees a writer coerced into a riotous flock of high flying society people with turbulent results; and Volcano (1957) depicts a volcanic eruption as it punctuates the dubious conduct of six individuals on a fictional South Sea island. This volume also includes Design for Rehearsing (1933) was Coward's private satire on the way he , Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne worked on Design for Living. Age Cannot Wither (1967), Coward's last and unfinished play completes the collection as it portrays the boozy reunion of three women in their sixties, who meet without fail every year to reminisce. Together, these works offer a new and intriguing insight into Coward the playwright and his oeuvre that extends well beyond his most well-known works such as Private Lives, Blithe Spirit and Hay Fever. The volume is introduced by Coward expert and scholar Barry Day.

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