Coward Plays: 1 - Noël Coward

Descriere Coward Plays: 1 - Noël Coward

\nThis first volume in the Coward Collection contains four plays written within a two year period when Coward \nand the century were still in their 20s. The volume is introduced by Sheridan Morley, \nCoward's first biographer. \n \n \n \nHay Fever, a comedy of bad \nmanners, concerns a weekend with friends of the Bliss family, who have \nall been invited independently for a weekend at their country house \nnear Maidenhead. The Vortex \nwas a controversial drama in its time, introducing drug-addiction onto \nthe stage at a time when alcoholism was barely mentioned. Fallen Angels, which is written for two star actresses \nwas described as 'degenerate', 'vile', 'obscene', 'shocking' - the \nsecond half of the play is entirely taken up with an alcoholic duologue \nbetween the two women. Easy Virtue is an elegant, laconic tribute to a \nlost world of drawing-room dramas, no other writer went more directly \nto the jugular of that moralistic, tight-lipped but fundamentally \nhypocritical 20s society. \n \n \n \nHe is simply a phenomenon, and one that is unlikely to occur ever \nagain in theatre history Terence Rattigan

Detalii

Brand

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Categorie

ENSTK

EAN / GTIN

9780413460608

Magazine

1

Disponibilitate

in stock