Noel Coward Collected Plays:Five: Relative Values; Look After Lulu; Waiting in the Wings; Suite in Three Keys (World Classics)

Noel Coward Collected Plays:Five: Relative Values; Look After Lulu; Waiting in the Wings; Suite in Three Keys (World Classics)

by Noël Coward (Author)

Synopsis

Containing Coward's best work from the last two decades of his life, this volume includes Relative Values, which ran for over a year in 1951-2, Look After Lulu (1959), his perennially popular Feydeau adaptation, Waiting in the Wings (1960), a bravura piece set in a home for retired actresses, and Suite in Three Keys (1965), a trilogy of plays which gave Coward his last roles on stage. The volume is introduced by Sheridan Morley, Coward's first biographer, and includes an extensive chronology of Coward's work.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 540
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: 10 Mar 1983

ISBN 10: 0413517403
ISBN 13: 9780413517401

Author Bio
Noel Coward made his name as a playwright with The Vortex (1924), in which he also appeared. His numerous other successful plays included Hay Fever, Private Lives, Design for Living, and Blithe Spirit. During the war he wrote screenplays such as Brief Encounter (1944) and This Happy Breed (1942). His volumes of verse, autobiography and letters have all been published to acclaim by Methuen Drama. Coward was knighted in 1970 and died three years later in Jamaica.