Coward Plays: Nine: Salute to the Brave/Time Remembered; Long Island Sound; Volcano; Age Cannot Wither; Design for Rehearsing by Coward, Noël

Coward Plays: Nine: Salute to the Brave/Time Remembered; Long Island Sound; Volcano; Age Cannot Wither; Design For Rehearsing (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781350041325)

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Coward Plays: Nine: Salute to the Brave/Time Remembered; Long Island Sound; Volcano; Age Cannot Wither; Design for Rehearsing by Coward, Noël

Coward Plays: Nine: Salute to the Brave/Time Remembered; Long Island Sound; Volcano; Age Cannot Wither; Design For Rehearsing

$110.00
Coward Plays: Nine: Salute to the Brave/Time Remembered; Long Island Sound; Volcano; Age Cannot Wither; Design for Rehearsing by Coward, Noël

Coward Plays: Nine: Salute to the Brave/Time Remembered; Long Island Sound; Volcano; Age Cannot Wither; Design For Rehearsing

$110.00
Format: Hardcover
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Coward Plays: 9 offers up a fascinating selection of No? 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 flock of high flying society people with turbulent results; and Volcano (1957) depicts a volcanic eruption as it punctuates the dubious conduct of six individuals on a fictional South Sea island. This volume also includes Design for Rehearsing (1933) was Coward's private satire on the way he, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne worked on Design for Living. Age Cannot Wither (1967), Coward's last and unfinished play completes the collection as it portrays the boozy reunion of three women in their sixties, who meet without fail every year to reminisce.

Together, these works offer a new and intriguing insight into Coward the playwright and his oeuvre that extends well beyond his most well-known works such as Private Lives, Blithe Spirit and Hay Fever. The volume is introduced by Coward expert and scholar Barry Day.

Author: No? Coward
ISBN-10: 1350041327
ISBN-13: 9781350041325
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Language: English
Published: 02/22/2018
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 1.00d
By No? Coward
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No? Coward was born in 1899 in Teddington, Middlesex. He made his name as a playwright with The Vortex (1924), in which he also appeared. His numerous other successful plays included Fallen Angels (1925), Hay Fever (1925), Private Lives (1933), Design for Living (1933) and Blithe Spirit (1941). During the war he wrote screenplays such as Brief Encounter (1944) and In Which We Serve (1942). In the fifties he began a new career as a cabaret entertainer. He published volumes of verse and a novel (Pomp and Circumstance, 1960), two volumes of autobiography and four volumes of short stories: To Step Aside (1939), Star Quality (1951), Pretty Polly Barlow (1964) and Bon Voyage (1967). He was knighted in 1970 and died three years later in Jamaica.

Barry Day, OBE, is the author or editor of numerous books and plays with an emphasis on theatre - particularly musical theatre. He has published many volumes on the work of No? Coward including The Letters of No? Coward, The No? Coward Reader and The Complete Verse of No? Coward. He has an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Westminster.

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