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Coward Plays: 6 Noel Coward

Coward Plays: 6 By Noel Coward

Coward Plays: 6 by Noel Coward


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Summary

The sixth volume in the Coward Collection, including Semi-Monde.

Coward Plays: 6 Summary

Coward Plays: 6: Semi-Monde; Point Valaine; South Sea Bubble; Nude With Violin by Noel Coward

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.

About Noel Coward

Noel Coward made his name as a playwright with The Vortex (1924), in which he also appeared. His numerous other successful plays included Hay Fever, Private Lives, Design for Living, and Blithe Spirit. During the war he wrote screenplays such as Brief Encounter (1944) and This Happy Breed (1942). His volumes of verse, autobiography and letters have all been published to acclaim by Methuen Drama. Coward was knighted in 1970 and died three years later in Jamaica.

Table of Contents

Semi-Monde; Point Valaine; South Sea Bubble; Nude With Violin

Additional information

GOR003430507
9780413734105
0413734102
Coward Plays: 6: Semi-Monde; Point Valaine; South Sea Bubble; Nude With Violin by Noel Coward
Used - Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
19990415
488
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