{"product_id":"coward-plays-2-private-lives-bittersweet-the-marquise-postmortem-world-classics-9780413460806","title":"Coward Plays: 2: Private Lives; Bitter-Sweet; The Marquise; Post-Mortem (World Classics)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCoward Plays: 2: Private Lives; Bitter-Sweet; The Marquise; Post-Mortem (World Classics)\u003c\/strong\u003e by Coward, Noël. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780413460806.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe plays in this volume demonstrate the extraordinary skill and\nversatility Cowards writing achieved in the late 1920s.\n\nThe volume contains\nhis best-loved classic, Private Lives, which was an immeditate hit when\nit was first staged in 1930. Cowards sparkling dialogue and repartee\nhave ensured the plays popularity ever since. Of Bitter-Sweet in 1929 Noël Coward wrote that it was \"a musical that gave\nme more complete satisfaction than anything else I had yet written. Not\nespecially on acount of its dialogue or its lyrics or its music or its\nproduction but as a whole.\" The Marquise is an \"eighteenth century\ncomedy\" filled with maids and duels, whilst Post-Mortem is a\nvilification of war that contains some of Cowards most powerful\nwriting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44985006751797,"sku":"ByrdShop_0413460800","price":27.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780413460806_8a594123-a417-492d-8688-8db77292b7ac.jpg?v=1778724813","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/coward-plays-2-private-lives-bittersweet-the-marquise-postmortem-world-classics-9780413460806","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}