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Blithe Spirit (Acting Edition S.) - Softcover

Coward, Noel Sir

 
9780573010446: Blithe Spirit (Acting Edition S.)

Synopsis

Written in 1941 this book remians the longest-running comedy in the history of the British theatre for three decades.

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Review

"A minor comic masterpiece of the lighter sort"-Professor Allardyce Nicoll

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.

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