Coward Plays: 2: Private Lives; Bitter-Sweet; The Marquise; Post-Mortem
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,Ā 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. OfĀ Bitter-SweetĀ in 1929 NoĆ«l 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."Ā The MarquiseĀ is an "eighteenth century
comedy" filled with maids and duels, whilstĀ Post-MortemĀ is a
vilification of war that contains some of Coward's most powerful
writing.
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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,Ā 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. OfĀ Bitter-SweetĀ in 1929 NoĆ«l 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."Ā The MarquiseĀ is an "eighteenth century
comedy" filled with maids and duels, whilstĀ Post-MortemĀ is a
vilification of war that contains some of Coward's most powerful
writing.
