Coward Plays : "Hay Fever", "The Vortex", "Fallen Angels", "Easy Virtue" v.1 Paperback / softback
by Noel Coward
Part of the World Classics series
Paperback / softback
Description
This first volume in the Coward Collection contains four plays written within a two year period when Coward and the century were still in their 20s.
The volume is introduced by Sheridan Morley, Coward's first biographer.
Hay Fever, a comedy of bad manners, concerns a weekend with friends of the Bliss family, who have all been invited independently for a weekend at their country house near Maidenhead. The Vortex was a controversial drama in its time, introducing drug-addiction onto the stage at a time when alcoholism was barely mentioned.
Fallen Angels, which is written for two star actresses was described as 'degenerate', 'vile', 'obscene', 'shocking' - the second half of the play is entirely taken up with an alcoholic duologue between the two women.
Easy Virtue is an elegant, laconic tribute to a lost world of drawing-room dramas, no other writer went more directly to the jugular of that moralistic, tight-lipped but fundamentally hypocritical 20s society. "He is simply a phenomenon, and one that is unlikely to occur ever again in theatre history" Terence Rattigan
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:320 pages, bibliography
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:06/09/1979
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- ISBN:9780413460608
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:320 pages, bibliography
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:06/09/1979
- Category:
- ISBN:9780413460608
