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 acount of its dialogue or its lyrics or its music or its production but as a whole.” The Marquise is an “eighteenth century comedy” filled with maids and duels.

Post-Mortem is a vilification of war that contains some of Coward’s most powerful writing.

Published by Methuen

362 pages

Condition; VERY GOOD – unmarked