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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 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.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Plays, playscripts

• Full title: Coward Plays: 2
• Subtitle: Private Lives; Bitter-Sweet; The Marquise; Post-Mortem
• Author: Noel Coward
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9780413460806
• ISBN: 0413460800
• ID: 02748191
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 342 g
• Dimensions: 204 × 127 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. September 1979

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