Coward Plays: 6: Semi-Monde; Point Valaine; South Sea Bubble; Nude with Violin
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 sexualpairings take place through rendezvous, arguments, infidelities andreconciliations: sexual deviance is undisguised...set in the bisexual1920s, the play could easily be populated by characters of Coward'ssociety. Point Valaine is thedrama of a lurid episode of lust in the semi-tropics.. unmistakably thework of a master of the stage (New York Times); South Sea Bubble whichconcerns the Governor's lady in the Isle of Samolo who plays withnative fire, nearly gets her wings singed, bashes her native admirerwith…
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- ISBN: 978-0-413-73410-5
- EAN: 9780413734105
- Produktnummer: 9088364
- Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 488 S.
- Masse: H20.1 cm x B12.4 cm x D2.5 cm 363 g
- Gewicht: 363
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Noël Coward was born in 1899 in Teddington, Middlesex. He made his name as a playwright with The Vortex (1924), in which he also appeared. His numerous other successful plays included Fallen Angels (1925), Hay Fever (1925), Private Lives (1933), Design for Living (1933) and Blithe Spirit (1941). During the war he wrote screenplays such as Brief Encounter (1944) and In Which We Serve (1942). In the fifties he began a new career as a cabaret entertainer. He published volumes of verse and a novel (Pomp and Circumstance, 1960), two volumes of autobiography and four volumes of short stories: To Step Aside (1939), Star Quality (1951), Pretty Polly Barlow (1964) and Bon Voyage (1967). He was knighted in 1970 and died three years later in Jamaica.
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