Coward Plays: 2: Private Lives; Bitter-Sweet; The Marquise; Post-Mortem

The plays in this volume demonstrate the extraordinary skill and versatility Coward's writing achieved in the late 1920s.




The volume contains his best-loved classic, Private Lives, which was an immeditate hit when it was first staged in 1930. Coward's sparkling dialogue and repartee have ensured the play's popularity ever since. Of Bitter-Sweet in 1929 Noël Coward wrote that it was "a musical that gave me more complete satisfaction than anything else I had yet written. Not especially on acou...