Noël Coward: 22 books
Tonight At 8.30
We Were Dancing; The Astonished Heart; ‘Red Peppers’; Hands Across the Sea; Fumed Oak; Shadow Play; Ways and Means; Still Life; Family Album; Star Chamber
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Written as a vehicle for Coward's own acting talents alongside his frequent stage partner Gertrude Lawrence, *Tonight at 8:*30 is Coward's ambitious series of ten one-act plays which saw him breathe new life into the one-act form. First performed in London in 1936, the plays perfectly showcase Coward's...
Coward Plays: Nine
Salute to the Brave/Time Remembered; Long Island Sound; Volcano; Age Cannot Wither; Design For Rehearsing
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
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...
Coward Plays: 4
Blithe Spirit; Present Laughter; This Happy Breed; Tonight at 8.30 (ii)
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Volume Four of Noël Coward's plays contains a selection of Coward's
plays from the thirties and forties which includes Blithe Spirit, a
comedy that centres around the spirit medium Madame Arcati. The play
that mocks sudden death was produced at precisely the moment when bombs
were bringing it to...
by Noël Coward
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
The first single edition of Noël Coward's most controversial play.
"Only
in Semi-Monde does Coward find a successful metaphor for the sexual
complications that lie behind his posturing. Semi-Monde is easily the
most visually daring of his comedies, and the most intellectually
startling...
by Noël Coward
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
In the 1920s and 1930s Noël Coward mastered and defined the art of the revue sketch - short and often topical or satirical stage pieces, many of which were a lead-in to his famous songs. He wrote these sketches for the top revues of the 1920s and 1930s, including London Calling! (1923) and Cochrane's...
Noël Coward Screenplays
In Which We Serve, Brief Encounter, The Astonished Heart
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This collection brings together three of Coward's most important screenplays – In Which We Serve (1942), Brief Encounter (1945) and The Astonished Heart (1950). The collection features the shooting scripts for each film alongside contextual notes for each play, and a general introduction, by Barry...
Coward Plays: 2
Private Lives; Bitter-Sweet; The Marquise; Post-Mortem
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
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...
Coward Plays: 3
Design for Living; Cavalcade; Conversation Piece; Tonight at 8.30 (i); Still Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The third volume of Coward's plays contains some of his best work from
the thirties.
Design for Living - is about a triangular alliance
between two men and a woman, based on friends of Coward's, which he
waited to write "until she and he and I had arrived by different roads
in our careers...
Coward Plays: 1
Hay Fever; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; Easy Virtue
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
This first volume in the Coward Collection contains four plays written within a two year period when Coward
and the century were still in their 20s. The volume is introduced by Sheridan Morley,
Coward's first biographer.
Hay Fever, a comedy of bad
manners, concerns a weekend with friends of...
by Noël Coward
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
The definitive account, in his own words, of one of the most popular figures in British theatre.
The second and concluding volume of Noël Coward's legendary autobiography includes Future Indefinite and the unfinished Past Unconditional. With his trademark wit, Coward delivers anecdotes about his...
Present Indicative
The First Autobiography of Noël Coward
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
"I was photographed naked on a cushion very early in life, an insane, toothless smile slitting my face and pleats of fat overlapping me like an ill-fitting overcoat. Later, at the age of two, I was photographed again. This time in a lace dress, leaning against a garden roller and laughing hysterically....
Coward Plays: 5
Relative Values; Look After Lulu; Waiting in the Wings; Suite in Three Keys
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Containing Coward's best work from the last two decades of his life,
this volume includes Relative Values, which ran for over a year in
1951-2, Look After Lulu (1959), his perennially popular Feydeau
adaptation, Waiting in the Wings (1960), a bravura piece set in a home
for retired actresses, and...
by Noël Coward
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
This volume brings together Coward's celebrated verse, from snappy epigrams to seven-hundred-line short stories such as 'P&O 1930' and 'Not Yet the Dodo'; from moving war-time encounters to satirical barbs at familiar Coward targets; and from personal reminiscences to occasional verse such as...
Coward Plays: 6
Semi-Monde; Point Valaine; South Sea Bubble; Nude With Violin
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
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...
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