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Coward Plays: 1: Hay Fever; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; Easy Virtue by Noel Coward (Paperback, 1979)

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ISBN-13: 9780413460608, 978-0413460608. Coward Plays: 1 Hay Fever; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; Easy Virtue. Author(s): Noel Coward.

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This first volume in the Coward Collection contains four plays written within a two year period when Coward and the century were still in their 20s. The volume is introduced by Sheridan Morley, Coward's first biographer. Hay Fever, a comedy of bad manners, concerns a weekend with friends of the Bliss family, who have all been invited independently for a weekend at their country house near Maidenhead. The Vortex was a controversial drama in its time, introducing drug-addiction onto the stage at a time when alcoholism was barely mentioned. Fallen Angels, which is written for two star actresses was described as 'degenerate', 'vile', 'obscene', 'shocking' - the second half of the play is entirely taken up with an alcoholic duologue between the two women. Easy Virtue is an elegant, laconic tribute to a lost world of drawing-room dramas, no other writer went more directly to the jugular of that moralistic, tight-lipped but fundamentally hypocritical 20s society. He is simply a phenomenon, and one that is unlikely to occur ever again in theatre history Terence Rattigan

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PublisherBloomsbury Publishing

ISBN-139780413460608

eBay Product ID (ePID)87908296

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Book TitleCoward Plays: 1: Hay Fever; the Vortex; Fallen Angels; Easy Virtue

AuthorNoel Coward

FormatPaperback

LanguageEnglish

TopicPlays

Publication Year1979

Number of Pages322 Pages

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Item Height198mm

Item Width129mm

Item Weight260g

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Title_AuthorNoel Coward

Series TitleWorld Classics

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

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