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Author : Noel Coward
Publisher : Methuen Drama
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215277950
For fans and newcomers to Noel Coward's work, this compendium presents the very best in one entertaining volume.
Author : Noël Coward
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408145906
The Complete Verse of Noël Coward brings together the three volumes of verse produced during his lifetime together with previously unpublished material for the very first time. For the legions of fans of The Master, this definitive collection of Coward's verse writings will prove irresistible. 'Throughout most of the years of my life, since approximately 1908, I have derived a considerable amount of private pleasure from writing verse . . . It is an inherent instinct in the English character.' Beginning with his youthful verse experiments, The Complete Verse arranges in themed chapters Coward's prolific public and personal verse writings. Chapters bring together his verse on a wide variety of subjects including war, the theatre, love, friends, travel, and God and the infinite. It features the satirical 'cod-pieces' - Chelsea Buns and Spangled Unicorn - and the verse collected in the 1967 volume Not Yet the Dodo. But alongside these are the verses sent to friends and family over many years, in letters, memos and cables, which paint a vivid portrait of his more private life and are published here for the first time. With a linking commentary by editor Barry Day and sprinkled with illustrations throughout, The Complete Verse offers to Coward readers further enjoyment and appreciation of his wit, insatiable interest in people and skilful rendering of his public and private lives.
Author : Noel Coward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:815611301
Author : Barry Day
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0810853582
In Coward on Film: The Cinema of Noël Coward, author Barry Day documents every film based on Coward's work and/or in which he appeared. The result is an astounding list of film credits, including--on occasion--that of composer. Judged on his contribution to cinema alone, Noël Coward would have left a legacy matched by very few. With this detailed chronicle--which includes quotes from Coward himself and a complete filmography--Coward on Film stands as a fitting tribute to that legacy.
Author : Noël Coward
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781408147672
'A uniquely charming and enticing journey through a remarkable life. Coward's own record is made all the more delightful by the wise and helpful interpolations of Barry Day, the soundest authority on the Master that there is.' Stephen Fry 'Precise, witty, remarkably observed and gloriously English' Dame Judi Dench 'Barry Day's analysis is both perceptive and irresistible' Lord Richard Attenborough With virtually all the letters in this volume previously unpublished - this is a revealing new insight into the private life of a legendary figure. Coward's multi-faceted talent as an actor, writer, composer, producer and even as a war-time spy(!), brought him into close contact with the great, the good and the merely ambitious in film, literature and politics.With letters to and from the likes of: George Bernard Shaw, Virginia Woolf, Winston Churchill, Greta Garbo (she wrote asking him to marry her), Marlene Dietriech, Ian Fleming, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Fred Astaire, Charlie Chaplin, FD Roosevelt, the Queen Mother and many more, the picture that emerges is a series of vivid sketches of Noel Coward's private relationships, and a re-examination of the man himself. Deliciously insightful, witty, perfectly bitchy, wise, loving and often surprisingly moving, this extraordinary collection gives us Coward at his crackling best. A sublime portrait of a unique artist who made an indelible mark on the 20th century, from the Blitz to the Ritz and beyond.
Author : Cole Lesley
Publisher : Harmondsworth, Eng. : Penguin Books
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Coward, Noel, Sir, 1899-1973--Biography
ISBN : OCLC:472942235
Author : Noel Coward
Publisher : George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015005348100
These diaries chronicle the last thirty years of the author's life.
Author : Ben Macpherson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137598073
This book examines the performance of ‘Britishness’ on the musical stage. Covering a tumultuous period in British history, it offers a fresh look at the vitality and centrality of the musical stage, as a global phenomenon in late-Victorian popular culture and beyond. Through a re-examination of over fifty archival play-scripts, the book comprises seven interconnected stories told in two parts. Part One focuses on domestic and personal identities of ‘Britishness’, and how implicit anxieties and contradictions of nationhood, class and gender were staged as part of the popular cultural condition. Broadening in scope, Part Two offers a revisionary reading of Empire and Otherness on the musical stage, and concludes with a consideration of the Great War and the interwar period, as musical theatre performed a nostalgia for a particular kind of ‘Britishness’, reflecting the anxieties of a nation in decline.
Author : Noël Coward
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408145890
The Complete Verse of Noël Coward brings together the three volumes of verse produced during his lifetime together with previously unpublished material for the very first time. For the legions of fans of The Master, this definitive collection of Coward's verse writings will prove irresistible. 'Throughout most of the years of my life, since approximately 1908, I have derived a considerable amount of private pleasure from writing verse . . . It is an inherent instinct in the English character.' Beginning with his youthful verse experiments, The Complete Verse arranges in themed chapters Coward's prolific public and personal verse writings. Chapters bring together his verse on a wide variety of subjects including war, the theatre, love, friends, travel, and God and the infinite. It features the satirical 'cod-pieces' - Chelsea Buns and Spangled Unicorn - and the verse collected in the 1967 volume Not Yet the Dodo. But alongside these are the verses sent to friends and family over many years, in letters, memos and cables, which paint a vivid portrait of his more private life and are published here for the first time. With a linking commentary by editor Barry Day and sprinkled with illustrations throughout, The Complete Verse offers to Coward readers further enjoyment and appreciation of his wit, insatiable interest in people and skilful rendering of his public and private lives.
Author : Stephen Cole
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1993-11-23
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780313285998
This volume provides a detailed record of the life and career of Noel Coward. The book begins with a short biography and a chronology that highlights the most important events in Coward's career. Detailed entries for Coward's many performances follow, with entries grouped in chapters on drama, film, radio, and television, as well as a discography. Entries include a list of cast members, a synopsis of the plot of the production, excerpts from reviews, and critical comments. The book also lists Coward's awards and honors, and it concludes with a detailed, annotated bibliography.
Author : Noël Coward
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780307474872
The Noël Coward Reader offers a wonderfully wide-ranging selection—the first of its kind—of the best of the Master’s oeuvre, entertainingly annotated and abundantly illustrated, and including material that has never before been published. Here are scenes from Coward’s famous plays, from Private Lives to Blithe Spirit, and his screenplays, from Brief Encounter to In Which We Serve. Here are four of his best short stories, scenes from his only novel, and a generous selection of his verse, alongside the lyrics of many of his most sublime songs, including “Mad Dogs and Englishmen,” “The Stately Homes of England,” and “Mad About the Boy.” The Noël Coward Reader is a must-have book both for those who adore his work and for those who are just discovering the many-faceted delights of his comic genius.
Author : Noël Coward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:312509059
Author : Noel Coward
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Comedy
ISBN : 0573613192
Two existing plays, a one act and a two act, both utilising the same setting and cast numbers (including one common character) presented in a single production. These two plays are also part of the set: Suite in three keys.
Author : Cole LESLEY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:439984049
Author : Paul Moon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000435214
Colonising New Zealand offers a radically new vision of the basis and process of Britain’s colonisation of New Zealand. It commences by confronting the problems arising from subjective and ever-evolving moral judgements about colonisation and examines the possibility of understanding colonisation beyond the confines of any preoccupations with moral perspectives. It then investigates the motives behind Britain’s imperial expansion, both in a global context and specifically in relation to New Zealand. The nature and reasons for this expansion are deciphered using the model of an organic imperial ecosystem, which involves examining the first cause of all colonisation and which provides a means of understanding why the disparate parts of the colonial system functioned in the ways that they did. Britain’s imperial system did not bring itself into being, and so the notion of the Empire having emerged from a supra-system is assessed, which in turn leads to an exploration of the idea of equilibrium-achievement as the Prime Mover behind all colonisation—something that is borne out in New Zealand’s experience from the late eighteenth century. This work changes profoundly the way New Zealand’s colonisation is interpreted, and provides a framework for reassessing all forms of imperialism.