| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 320 pages) |
| Series |
Methuen drama world classics |
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The Coward collection |
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Coward, Noël, 1899-1973.
Works. Selections (Methuen Publishing Ltd.)
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Methuen's world dramatists.
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| Contents |
Semi-monde -- Point Valaine -- South Sea bubble -- Nude with violin |
| Summary |
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 could easily be populated by characters of Coward's society"". Point Valaine is ""the drama of a lurid episode of lust in the semi-tropics.. unmistakably the work of a master of the stage"" (New York Times); South Sea Bubble which concerns ""the Governor's lady in the Isle of Samolo who plays with nativ |
| Notes |
"This special edition is published to mark the centenary of Noël Coward's birth"--Page 4 of cover |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Drama
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plays (performing arts compositions)
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drama (literary genre)
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FICTION -- General.
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Drama
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Morely, Sheridan
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Coward, Noël, 1899-1973.
Ritz Bar
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Coward, Noël, 1899-1973.
Point Valaine
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Coward, Noël, 1899-1973.
South Sea bubble
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Coward, Noël, 1899-1973.
Nude with violin
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| ISBN |
9781472503336 |
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1472503333 |
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