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Philip Hoare, in his biography of Coward described Semi-Monde as his "most daring play to date. In a chic Parisian hotel, a series of sexual pairings take place through rendezvous, arguments, infidelities and reconciliations: sexual deviance is undisguised...set in the bisexual 1920s, the play could easily be populated by characters of Coward's society". Point Valaine is "the drama of a lurid episode of lust in the semi-tropics. unmistakably the work of a master of the stage" (New York Times); South Sea Bubble which concerns "the Governor's lady in the Isle of Samolo who plays with native fire, nearly gets her wings singed, bashes her native admirer with a bottle and at one of those Coward next-morning-at breakfast scenes slips her way out of the scrape with feline grace." (Manchester Guardian) whilst Nude With Violin is a witty comedy about art fraud.

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

• Full title: Coward Plays: 6
• Subtitle: Semi-Monde; Point Valaine; South Sea Bubble; Nude With Violin
• Author: Noel Coward
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 488
• EAN: 9780413734105
• ISBN: 0413734102
• ID: 04606086
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 412 g
• Dimensions: 204 × 128 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. April 1999

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