Three Plays by Noel Coward: Blithe Spirit, Hay Fever [and] Private Lives

Author: Noel Coward
Publisher: [New York] : Dell Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Actresses
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
Blithe Spirit is a comic play by Noël Coward, described by the author as "an improbable farce in three acts". The play concerns the socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant Madame Arcati to his house to conduct a séance, hoping to gather material for his next book.

Private lives

Author: Noel Coward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Private lives

Author: Noel Coward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Blithe Spirit, Hay Fever, Private Lives

Author: Noël Coward
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780679781790
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
Filled with languid aristocrats trading witticisms as they wait for martinis, this collection of three Noel Coward plays encapsulates the qualities that made him one of the most popular playwrights of the 1930s and '40s and one of the great personalities of the century. In Blithe Spirit, Charles Condomine receives a visit from his first wife, Elvira. Unfortunately, Elvira is now a ghost and Charles has, understandably, moved on and married Ruth. The bohemian protagonists of Hay Fever wreak emotional havoc on a house full of weekend visitors. In Private Lives, a recently divorced couple find themselves in adjoining hotel rooms while on honeymoon with their new spouses.

From Agent to Actor

Author: Edgar Small
Publisher: Samuel French , Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
Offers up cantankerous novelist Charles Condomine, re-married but haunted (literally) by the ghost of his late first wife, the clever and insistent Elvira who is called up by a visiting "happy medium", one Madame Arcati. As the (worldy and un- ) personalities clash, Charles' current wife Ruth is accidentally killed, "passes over," joins Elvira and the two "blithe spirits" haunt the hapless Charles into perpetuity.

Coward the Playwright

Author: John Lahr
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520234147
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 204

Book Description
An adept and well-focused study of Noel Coward-as-playwright by award winning New Yorker critic John Lahr.

The Vortex

Author: Noel Coward
Publisher: New York Harper 1925.
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Hay Fever

Author: Noël Coward
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350354120
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 107

Book Description
"This 1925 comedy of manners that's funny yet also unorthodox and unsettling... a celebration of abnormality and at the same time a disquieting study of both the pleasures and the pains of not being able to restrain oneself." - Evening Standard When four guests, all invited by different members of the Bliss family, arrive for a weekend at their country house near Maidenhead, they're expecting a idyllic retreat. But this peaceful promise is quickly trounced when the self-absorbed eccentricities of the Blisses are trained on the guests, who leave the country mansion humiliated and embarrassed. First produced in 1925, Hay Fever is a technical masterpiece, seamlessly combining high farce with a comedy of manners, and delivering Coward his first major commercial success. This new edition is published in Methuen Drama's iconic Modern Classics series to coincide with the 125th anniversary of Coward's birth and features a new introduction by Michael Billington.

Hay Fever

Author: Noel Coward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70

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Noel & Cole

Author: Stephen Citron
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780634093029
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 378

Book Description
First time in Paperback! Noel Coward and Cole Porter's fascinating lives celebrated. Fresh on the heels of the popular motion picture based on Cole Porter's life called De-Lovely, Noel and Cole presents a fresh and often surprising portrait of these two geniuses. The author provides insight into both men's private lives - including a frank discussion of their homosexuality - while illuminating their musical achievements. Born an ocean apart - one in Indiana, the other in England - Cole Porter and Noel Coward have come to represent the ultimate in sophistication and urbanity. Noel and Cole will be an essential reference as well as a fascinating dual biography of two men who brought style and dazzle to the art of popular entertainment. * Based on access to previously unpublished manuscripts, lyrics, scores, and letters, plus dozens of interviews * Includes a chronology and a fifty-page section devoted to the analysis of select works