Noel Coward Collected Verse (Coward Collection) - Softcover

Coward, Noël

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0413551504 ISBN 13: 9780413551504

Publisher: Methuen Drama, 2007

Synopsis

This volume brings together Coward's celebrated verse, from snappy epigrams to seven-hundred-line short stories such as 'P&O 1930' and 'Not Yet the Dodo'; from moving war-time encounters to satirical barbs at familiar Coward targets; and from personal reminiscences to occasional verse such as his tribute to Ivor Novello or his counter-attack on Graham Greene.

Includes an introduction by Martin Tickner and Coward's long-time companion, Graham Payn.

About this title

About the Author:

Noël Coward was born in 1899 in Teddington, Middlesex. He made his name as a playwright with The Vortex (1924), in which he also appeared. His numerous other successful plays included Fallen Angels (1925), Hay Fever (1925), Private Lives (1933), Design for Living (1933) and Blithe Spirit (1941). During the war he wrote screenplays such as Brief Encounter (1944) and In Which We Serve (1942). In the fifties he began a new career as a cabaret entertainer. He published volumes of verse and a novel (Pomp and Circumstance, 1960), two volumes of autobiography and four volumes of short stories: To Step Aside (1939), Star Quality (1951), Pretty Polly Barlow (1964) and Bon Voyage (1967). He was knighted in 1970 and died three years later in Jamaica.

About this edition

• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0413551504
• ISBN 13: 9780413551504
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224