Coward Plays

<p>The plays in this volume demonstrate the extraordinary skill and<br>versatility Coward's writing achieved in the late 1920s. <p/> <p/>The volume contains<br>his best-loved classic <i>Private Lives</i> which was an immeditate hit when<br>it was first staged in 1930. Coward's sparkling dialogue and repartee<br>have ensured the play's popularity ever since. Of <i>Bitter-Sweet</i> in 1929 Noël Coward wrote that it was a musical that gave<br>me more complete satisfaction than anything else I had yet written. Not<br>especially on acount of its dialogue or its lyrics or its music or its<br>production but as a whole. <i>The Marquise </i>is an eighteenth century<br>comedy filled with maids and duels whilst <i>Post-Mortem</i> is a<br>vilification of war that contains some of Coward's most powerful<br>writing.</p>