The plays in this volume demonstrate the extraordinary skill andversatility Coward's writing achieved in the late 1920s.The volume containshis best-loved classic, Private Lives, which was an immeditate hit whenit was first staged in 1930. Coward's sparkling dialogue and reparteehave ensured the play's popularity ever since. OfBitter-Sweet in 1929 No螔 Coward wrote that it was "a musical that gaveme more complete satisfaction than anything else I had yet written. Notespecially on acount of its dialogue or its lyrics or its music or itsproduction but as a whole."The Marquise is an "eighteenth centurycomedy" filled with maids and duels, whilstPost-Mortem is avilification of war that contains some of Coward's most powerfulwriting.
Noel Coward Collected Plays Two
- 作者： Coward, Noel
- 出版社： Methuen
- 出版日期： 2000-02-01
- ISBN碼： 9780413460806
- 編號： 203c510236582
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