Noel Coward Collected Plays - Six Vol. 6: Semi Monde - Point Valaine - South Sea Bubble - Nude with Violin

Author/creator Coward, Noël Author
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Publication InfoLondon : Bloomsbury Academic Gordonsville : Macmillan [Distributor]
Description488 p. 08.000 x 05.000 in.
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SeriesWorld Classics Ser.
Summary Annotation 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 sexualpairings take place through rendezvous, arguments, infidelities andreconciliations: sexual deviance is undisguisedset in the bisexual1920s, the play could easily be populated by characters of Coward'ssociety".Point Valaineis "thedrama of a lurid episode of lust in the semi-tropics.. unmistakably thework of a master of the stage" (New York Times); South Sea Bubble whichconcerns "the Governor's lady in the Isle of Samolo who plays withnative fire, nearly gets her wings singed, bashes her native admirerwith a bottle and at one of those Coward next-morning-at breakfastscenes slips her way out of the scrape with feline grace." (ManchesterGuardian) whilst Nude With Violinis a witty comedy about art fraud.
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