Coward Plays: 6 : Semi-Monde; Point Valaine; South Sea Bubble; Nude With Violin Paperback / softback
by Noel Coward
Part of the World Classics series
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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 native fire, nearly gets her wings singed, bashes her native admirer with a bottle and at one of those Coward next-morning-at breakfast scenes slips her way out of the scrape with feline grace." (Manchester Guardian) whilst Nude With Violin is a witty comedy about art fraud.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:488 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:15/04/1999
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- ISBN:9780413734105
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Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:488 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:15/04/1999
- Category:
- ISBN:9780413734105
