Coward Plays 2 Private Lives Bitter-Sweet The Marquise Post-Mortem [Paperback]

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. OfBitter-Sweetin 1929 No??l 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, whilstPost-Mortemis a
vilification of war that contains some of Coward's most powerful
writing.