The plays in this volume demonstrate the extraordinary skill andversatility Coward’s writing achieved in the late 1920s. The volume containshis best-loved classic, Private Lives, which was an immeditate hit whenit was first staged in 1930. Coward’s sparkling dialogue and reparteehave ensured the play’s popularity ever since. Of Bitter-Sweet in 1929 Noël Coward wrote that it was «a musical that gaveme more complete satisfaction than anything else I had yet written. Notespecially on acount of its dialogue or its lyrics or its music or itsproduction but as a whole.» The Marquise is an «eighteenth centurycomedy» filled with maids and duels, whilst Post-Mortem is avilification of war that contains some of Coward’s most powerful writing.
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