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Author : Roger Kojecky
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031522842
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Coward the Dramatist written by Roger Kojecky and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Lahr
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520234146
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Coward the Playwright written by John Lahr and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-04 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An adept and well-focused study of Noel Coward-as-playwright by award winning New Yorker critic John Lahr.
Author : Howard Kissel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781936232109
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Coward in an Hour written by Howard Kissel and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noel Coward was a child when he saw an advertisement in the Daily Mirror calling on "a talented boy of attractive appearance" to act a lead role in a play about fairies called The Goldfish. Coward reasoned: I am "a talented boy, God knows, and, when washed and smarmed down a bit, passably attractive." The plays director, the young boy thought, would be a fool indeed to miss the magnificent opportunity of having him in the cast. He ran to his room to put his acting clothes on and prepare for the audition--and with that same blithe spirit, Coward went on to write some of the funniest, wittiest plays of the twentieth century.Setting the playwright in context to his personal life, social, historical and political events, other writers of influence, and more, you will quickly gain a deep understanding of Coward and the plays he wrote. Read Coward in an Hour and experience his plays like never before. Know the playwright, love the play!The book features:- Coward in an Hour, the main essay of the book- Coward In a Minute, a snapshot chronology- A complete listing of Coward¿s work- A list of Coward¿s contemporaries in all fields- Excerpts from Coward¿s significant works- An extensive bibliography grouped according to type of reader- An index of the main essay.Playwrights in an Hour is a series devoted to the most produced and studied playwrights in the English language, from the Greek masters to contemporary writers, and written by leading authorities in the field. Each short book places the playwright and his or her work in historical, social, and literary context.Howard Kissel was a theater critic for thirty-five years, first for Women's Wear Daily, then the New York Daily News. His writing on the arts has appeared in many publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Vogue and Opera News. In 1974 he was on the panel to select the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. He is the only person to have been chairman of both the New York Drama Critics Circle and the New York Film Critics Circle. He is the author of books on the Broadway producer David Merrick, the musical theater and the teaching of Stella.
Author : Frances B. Gray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Noel Coward written by Frances B. Gray and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Lahr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780041348088
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Coward Playwright written by John Lahr and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Noël Coward
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408162121
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Coward Plays: 5 written by Noël Coward and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Russell Jackson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350246085
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Noël Coward written by Russell Jackson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length work to draw extensively on unpublished archive material to document the composition and reception of some of Noël Coward's most significant plays. It examines his working practices as a playwright, from manuscript to performance. This study argues that, while he did not embrace any of the more radical theatrical 'isms' of his time, Coward experimented with both form and content. He adapted the familiar 'well-made' formulas, while also emphasizing theatrical self-consciousness and an exploration of radical social and sexual relationships. After an overview of Coward's career and the reception of his plays, the work discusses selected texts from successive phases of Coward's career, including some unproduced or uncompleted work and perennially popular plays such as The Vortex, Hay Fever, Private Lives, Design for Living, Blithe Spirit and Present Laughter. This study also explores how, in the aftermaths of two world wars, as major changes in social and political circumstances suggested new approaches to dramaturgy, Coward's post-1945 work failed to achieve the same success he had enjoyed in earlier periods. The final chapter examines Coward's approach to his craft in response to the new theatrical and cultural environment, and the new freedom in the treatment of homosexuality represented by Suite in Three Keys and his final, uncompleted play, Age Cannot Wither.
Author : Philip Hoare
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476737495
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book Noel Coward written by Philip Hoare and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of one of the twentieth century’s most celebrated and controversial dramatists. To several generations, actor, playwright, songwriter, and filmmaker Noël Coward (1899-1973) was the very personification of wit, glamour, and elegance. Given unprecedented access to the private papers and correspondence of Coward family members, compatriots, and numerous lovers, Samuel Johnson Prize-winning biographer Philip Hoare has produced an illuminating and sophisticated biography of Coward, whose relentless drive for success and approval fueled the stunning bursts of creativity that launched the once-painfully middle class boy from the suburbs of London into a pantheon of theatrical deities that includes Gilbert and Sullivan, Oscar Wilde, and George Bernard Shaw. As much the embodiment of a lifestyle as an actual inhabitant of it, Coward’s carefully cultivated image defined the aspirations of untold numbers of actors, artists, and writers who succeeded him, and Hoare’s meticulously researched biography peels away the layers of this complex persona to reveal the man underneath it all, whom The Times of London decreed upon his death to be the most versatile of all the great figures of the English theater.
Author : Russell Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781032331140
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Noël Coward written by Russell Jackson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2024-12-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noël Coward combines a fresh appraisal of major plays by one of the twentieth century's most popular dramatists, with an account of critical and theatrical responses to his life and work. For almost the entirety of the Twentieth Century, Noël Coward was one of the UK's most popular and celebrated playwrights. Refracting, rather than directly reflecting the social and personal issues of his time, his plays reveal tensions and contradictions in the theatre world that surrounded them. As well as critical responses to his work and the key themes that it foregrounds, seminal productions of The Vortex, Private Lives, Design for Living, Hay Fever, Blithe Spirit and more are examined to further elaborate on the radicalism of his approach to personal and social relationships, and the ways in which directors and actors have sought to achieve a sense of the disquiet felt by critics and audiences when they were first produced. This book explores the question of what Coward's work can speak to for today's modern audiences, assessing his standing in terms of how conditions have changed in the theatre and society more broadly since they were written. Part of the Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists series, Noël Coward provides undergraduate students on Theatre Studies degrees and Modern Drama courses an essential and accessible guide to the playwright's work and illustrates the influence of his drama on what theatre can tell us about our society.
Author : Russell Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781350246096
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Noël Coward written by Russell Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first book-length work to draw extensively on unpublished archive material to document the composition and reception of some of Noël Coward's most significant plays. It examines his working practices as a playwright, from manuscript to performance. This study argues that, while he did not embrace any of the more radical theatrical 'isms' of his time, Coward experimented with both form and content. He adapted the familiar 'well-made' formulas, while also emphasizing theatrical self-consciousness and an exploration of radical social and sexual relationships. After an overview of Coward's career and the reception of his plays, the work discusses selected texts from successive phases of Coward's career, including some unproduced or uncompleted work and perennially popular plays such as The Vortex, Hay Fever, Private Lives, Design for Living, Blithe Spirit and Present Laughter. This study also explores how, in the aftermaths of two world wars, as major changes in social and political circumstances suggested new approaches to dramaturgy, Coward's post-1945 work failed to achieve the same success he had enjoyed in earlier periods. The final chapter examines Coward's approach to his craft in response to the new theatrical and cultural environment, and the new freedom in the treatment of homosexuality represented by Suite in Three Keys and his final, uncompleted play, Age Cannot Wither"--
Author : Milton Levin
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Noël Coward written by Milton Levin and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Noel Coward.
Author : Laurence G. Avery
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469617285
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Dramatist in America written by Laurence G. Avery and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-08-25 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1920s through the 1950s Maxwell Anderson was one of the most important playwrights in America. His thirty-three produced plays make him a leader among these playwrights of America's most creative era in the theater, and a number of his plays have shown a lasting vitality and importance. What Price Glory (1924) dramatized the disillusionment and horror of World War I . With Elizabeth the Queen (1929), Winterset (1935), and High Tor (1936), Anderson revived poetic drama in the modern theater. His versatility as a playwright was further reflected in the satire Both Your Houses (1933), the historical parable Joan of Lorraine (1946), and the musical play Lost in the Stars (1949). This edition of Anderson's letters spans his adult life -- from 1912, shortly after he graduated from the University of North Dakota, to 1958, just before his death. Arranged chronologically, the letters reveal in full and intimate detail the development of his career, his methods of work, his relationships with theater people, his conceptions of himself as a playwright and of the nature of the theater, and his ideas about his plays, all of which focused on an inner moral struggle. Every aspect of his work and personality emerges in these letters, which serve as an autobiography in the rough. Each letter is fully annotated, permitting the reader to become a party to the correspondence. The editor has provided an informative introduction to the letters and also a substantial chronology of Anderson's life that incorporates the first complete bibliography of his plays, poems, essays, fiction, and screenplays. An appendix includes Anderson's previously unpublished statements about his life and his plays. Dramatist in America, the first edition of letters by a major American playwright, takes on added importance for its representative quality. It reveals the cultural and theatrical conditions under which a vital generation of playwrights created this country's finest period in the drama.
Author : Richard MURRAY (Dramatist.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (563 download)
Download or read book A Royal Coward: a Drama in Four Acts written by Richard MURRAY (Dramatist.) and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Noël Coward
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135035404X
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Present Laughter written by Noël Coward and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-04 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An honest, even profound reflection on the price of fame, with some genuine sexual frisson and an undercurrent of pathos." - The Hollywood Reporter At the centre of his own universe sits matinee idol Garry Essendine: suave, hedonistic and too old, says his wife, to be having numerous affairs - his line of harmless, infatuated debutantes is largely tolerated but playing closer to home is not. Just before he escapes on tour to Africa the full extent of his misdemeanours is discovered... and all hell breaks loose. Noël Coward's Present Laughter premiered in the early years of the Second World War just as such privileged lives were threatened with fundamental social change, and remains one of the playwright's most enduring hits. This new edition is published in Methuen Drama's iconic Modern Classics series to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Coward's death and features a new introduction by Russell Jackson.
Author : Noël Coward
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0413734102
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Coward Plays: 6 written by Noël Coward and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Hoare, in his biography of Coward described Semi-Monde as his "most daring play to date. In a chic Parisian hotel, a series of sexual pairings take place through rendezvous, arguments, infidelities and reconciliations: sexual deviance is undisguised...set in the bisexual 1920s, the play could easily be populated by characters of Coward's society". Point Valaine is "the drama of a lurid episode of lust in the semi-tropics.. unmistakably the work of a master of the stage" (New York Times); South Sea Bubble which concerns "the Governor's lady in the Isle of Samolo who plays with native fire, nearly gets her wings singed, bashes her native admirer with a bottle and at one of those Coward next-morning-at breakfast scenes slips her way out of the scrape with feline grace." (Manchester Guardian) whilst Nude With Violin is a witty comedy about art fraud.
Author : Philip Hoare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780684809373
Total Pages : 605 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Noël Coward written by Philip Hoare and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a look at the professional and personal life of the noted playwright
Author : Noël Coward
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408190788
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Present Indicative written by Noël Coward and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I was photographed naked on a cushion very early in life, an insane, toothless smile slitting my face and pleats of fat overlapping me like an ill-fitting overcoat. Later, at the age of two, I was photographed again. This time in a lace dress, leaning against a garden roller and laughing hysterically. If these photographs can be found they will adorn this book." Thus begins the life story of one of the most celebrated characters in British theatrical history, in the first of Coward's autobiographies, first published in 1937. Displaying an early dedication to the theatre, Present Indicative hints at the success that would come to Coward as actor, playwright, novelist and performer. Each line is punctuated with his trademark effervescent wit, making this book a comic tour de force in it's own right, as well as a "must read" for anyone with an interest in the British stage. "He is simply a phenomenon, and one that is unlikely to occur ever again in theatre history" Terence Rattigan
