Series:

World Classics

12 total works

Cover of Lyrics of Noel Coward

Lyrics of Noel Coward

by Noel Coward

Published August 1965
Together with an introduction and extensive notes by Coward himself, this collection of 276 Noel Coward lyrics is arranged in chronological order and grouped by show

Cover of Coward Plays: 7

Coward Plays: 7

by Noel Coward

Published 1 January 2009

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Coward Plays: 3

by Noel Coward

Published 1 January 2009

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Coward Plays: 6

by Noel Coward

Published 1 January 2009

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Coward Plays : 8

by Noel Coward

Published 1 January 2009

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Coward Plays: 1

by Noel Coward

Published 1 January 2009

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Coward Plays: Nine

by Noel Coward

Published 22 February 2018
Coward Plays: 9 offers up a fascinating selection of Noël 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.

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Coward Revue Sketches

by Noel Coward

Published 15 April 1999
In the 1920s and 1930s Noel Coward mastered and defined the art of the revue sketch - short and often topical or satirical stage pieces, many of which were a lead-in to his famous songs. He wrote these sketches for the top revues of the 1920s and 1930s, including London Calling! (1923) and Cochrane's Revue of 1931. This volume collects Coward's best and most witty pieces, including Rain Before Seven, the only sketch he performed with Gertrude Lawrence, and the hilarious parody, Some Other Private Lives, in which Coward burlesques his own famous play, Private Lives. Also included are short one-act plays never before published. The collection includes an Introduction by Coward scholar Barry Day, setting the work in the context of its time and its dramatic form. A forgotten area of Coward's writing is now back in print.

Cover of Coward Plays: 4

Coward Plays: 4

by Noel Coward

Published 12 November 2013

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Coward Plays: 5

by Noel Coward

Published 20 March 2014

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Coward Plays: 4

by Noel Coward

Published 6 September 1979
Volume Four of Noel Coward's plays contains a selection of Coward's plays from the thirties and forties which includes Blithe Spirit, a comedy that centres around the spirit medium Madame Arcati. The play that mocks sudden death was produced at precisely the moment when bombs were bringing it to Britain "I shall ever be grateful, for the almost psychic gift that enabled me to write Blithe Spirit in five days during one of the darkest years of the war." The play was for years the longest-running comedy in the history of British theatre. Present Laughter follows the life of Garry Essendine, a world-weary, middle-aged projection of the dilettante, debonair persona - self-obsessed and dressing-gowned who struts through the play like an educated peacock. It is a comedy about the 'theatricals' that Noel best knew and loved, and was originally a star vehicle for himself. It is the closest to an autobiographical play that Coward ever wrote.This Happy Breed is a saga of a lower middle-class family; and three shorter pieces fromTonight at 8.3
0 - is a farce set in the South of France, and serves as an oblique tribute to Frederick Lonsdale; The Astonished Heart is about the decay of a psychiatrist's mind through personal sexual obsession. Red Peppers, which closes the volume, was a cynical tribute to the lost music halls of the First World War.

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Includes over 200 newly found lyrics. This is the first time that the complete lyrics of Noel Coward have been published together. Includes sheet music, programmes and photos from original productions.This magnificent collection of over 500 lyrics, richly illustrated with over 200 photographs, will lead the way in celebrating the centenary of Coward's birth in 1999. Some 220 new lyrics and additional verses for existing songs have been discovered by Barry Day and are published here for the first time, along with Day's commentaries about the genesis and context for all the material. This volume made news headlines when it was revealed that a whole cache of new lyrics were discovered in a Swiss bank vault. No one knew that Noel Coward had written so much undiscovered material.The great popular lyricists of the twentieth century can be counted on the fingers of one hand - Lorenz Hart, Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Oscar Hammersmith ...and Noel Coward.