Coward Plays

4: Blithe Spirit; Present Laughter; This Happy Breed; Tonight at 8.30 (II)

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Beschreibung

<p>Volume Four of Noël Coward's plays contains a selection of Coward's<br>plays from the thirties and forties which includes <i>Blithe Spirit</i>, a<br>comedy that centres around the spirit medium Madame Arcati. The play<br>that mocks sudden death was produced at precisely the moment when bombs<br>were bringing it to Britain "I shall ever be grateful, for the almost<br>psychic gift that enabled me to write <i>Blithe Spirit</i> in five days during<br>one of the darkest years of the war." The play was for years the<br>longest-running comedy in the history of British theatre. <i>Present<br>Laughter</i> follows the life of Garry Essendine, a world-weary, <br>middle-aged projection of the dilettante, debonair persona -<br>self-obsessed and dressing-gowned who struts through the play like an<br>educated peacock. It is a comedy about the 'theatricals' that Noël best<br>knew and loved, and was originally a star vehicle for himself. It is<br>&gt;<br><i>This<br>Happy Breed</i> is a saga of a lower middle-class family; and three shorter<br>pieces from<i>Tonight at 8.30 </i>- is a farce set in the South of France, <br>and serves as an oblique tribute to Frederick Lonsdale; <i>The Astonished<br>Heart</i> is about the decay of a psychiatrist's mind through personal<br>sexual obsession. <i>Red Peppers</i>, which closes the volume, was a cynical<br>tribute to the lost music halls of the First World War.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780413461209

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

203 x 127 x 31 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

Verlag / Hersteller

Bloomsbury 3PL