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The plays in this volume demonstrate the extraordinary skill and versatility Coward's writing achieved in the late 1920s. 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-Sweetin 1929 Noel 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 Marquiseis an "eighteenth century comedy" filled with maids and duels, whilst Post-Mortemis a vilification of war that contains some of Coward's most powerful writing.Coward, Noël is the author of 'Collected Plays:two' with ISBN 9780413460806 and ISBN 0413460800.
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