Noel Coward

Broschiertes Buch

Selected Musical Plays by Noël Coward: A Critical Anthology

This Year of Grace; Bitter Sweet; Words and Music; Pacific 1860; Ace of Clubs; Sail Away; The Girl Who Came to Supper

Herausgeber: Quinn, Arianne Johnson

Beschreibung

Although Noël Coward's work as playwright, songwriter and actor of stage and screen has long been celebrated, his contributions to the British musical have largely been forgotten. This new anthology of playscripts rectifies this omission from the musical theatre landscape, providing students and scholars with an introduction to the little-known musical theatre works of Noël Coward from the 1920-1960s, with notes on context for today's audiences.

Autor

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. Arianne Johnson Quinn is a faculty member in the Florida State University Honors Program, USA, and Research and Archival Associate for the Noël Coward Archive Trust.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 552
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 158mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 860g
• ISBN-13: 9781350234680
• ISBN-10: 1350234680
• Artikelnr.: 63748152