Coward Plays - (World Classics) by Noel Coward & Noal Coward (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Philip Hoare, in his biography of Coward described <i>Semi-Monde </i>as his most daring play to date. In a chic Parisian hotel, a series of sexual<br>pairings take place through rendezvous, arguments, infidelities and<br>reconciliations: sexual deviance is undisguised...set in the bisexual<br>1920s, the play could easily be populated by characters of Coward's<br>society. <p/><br><i>Point Valaine</i> is the<br>drama of a lurid episode of lust in the semi-tropics.. unmistakably the<br>work of a master of the stage (New York Times); <i>South Sea Bubble </i>which<br>concerns the Governor's lady in the Isle of Samolo who plays with<br>native fire, nearly gets her wings singed, bashes her native admirer<br>with a bottle and at one of those Coward next-morning-at breakfast<br>scenes slips her way out of the scrape with feline grace. (Manchester<br>Guardian) whilst <i>Nude With Violin</i> is a witty comedy about art fraud.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Noël Coward was born in 1899 in Teddington, Middlesex. He made his name as a playwright with <i>The Vortex</i> (1924), in which he also appeared. His numerous other successful plays included <i>Fallen Angels</i> (1925), <i>Hay Fever</i> (1925), <i>Private Lives</i> (1933), <i>Design for Living</i> (1933) and <i>Blithe Spirit</i> (1941). During the war he wrote screenplays such as <i>Brief Encounter</i> (1944) and <i>In Which We Serve</i> (1942). In the fifties he began a new career as a cabaret entertainer. He published volumes of verse and a novel (<i>Pomp and Circumstance</i>, 1960), two volumes of autobiography and four volumes of short stories: <i>To Step Aside</i> (1939), <i>Star Quality</i> (1951), <i>Pretty Polly Barlow</i> (1964) and <i>Bon Voyage</i> (1967). He was knighted in 1970 and died three years later in Jamaica.
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