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'A uniquely charming and enticing journey through a remarkable life. Coward's own record is made all the more delightful by the wise and helpful inter...
"Noel Coward's glittering gem" - The Times Elyot Chase and Amanda Prynne, recently divorced from one another after a five-year marriage, coincidentall...
"An honest, even profound reflection on the price of fame, with some genuine sexual frisson and an undercurrent of pathos." - The Hollywood Reporter A...
We Were Dancing; The Astonished Heart; ‘Red Peppers’; Hands Across the Sea; Fumed Oak; Shadow Play; Ways and Means; Still Life; Family Album; Star Chamber
Written as a vehicle for Coward's own acting talents alongside his frequent stage partner Gertrude Lawrence, Tonight at 8:30 is Coward's ambitious ser...
The first single edition of Noël Coward's most controversial play. "Only in Semi-Monde does Coward find a successful metaphor for the sexual complica...
The Complete Verse of Noël Coward brings together the three volumes of verse produced during his lifetime together with previously unpublished materi...
Mad Dogs and Englishmen, Don't Put your Daughter on the Stage, Mrs Worthington and over 250 more lyrics from Coward's musical masterpieces. Noël Cowa...
The First Autobiography of Noël Coward
"I was photographed naked on a cushion very early in life, an insane, toothless smile slitting my face and pleats of fat overlapping me like an ill-fi...
"Its fusion of passion and mischief remains striking and there is something undeniably heady about its celebration of a kind of sexual liberation that...
A Biography of Noël Coward
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The roaring twenties. A world in flux. The magnetic Florence Lancaster draws people to her like moths to a flame. But when her son Nicky arrives home ...
Noël Coward's Brief Encounter is remembered as one of the most haunting love stories on screen ever. Drawing on the characteristic wit and musicality...
"This 1925 comedy of manners that's funny yet also unorthodox and unsettling... a celebration of abnormality and at the same time a disquieting study ...
In Which We Serve, Brief Encounter, The Astonished Heart
This collection brings together three of Coward's most important screenplays – In Which We Serve (1942), Brief Encounter (1945) and The Astonished H...
A rich uncle announces he has a terminal illness and plans to leave his estate to one of his sister’s children but under one condition. The family s...
The Collected Stories of Noel Coward
Voor het eerst alle verhalen van de Britse auteur in één bundel verzameld....
Quadrille; 'Peace in Our Time'; Tonight at 8.30 (iii)
The Seventh volume in the Coward Collection. On Quadrille: "Miss Fontanne plays the madcap Marchioness with the crackle and sheen of a five-pound note...
I will ever be grateful for the almost psychic gift that enabled me to write Blithe Spirit in five days during one of the darkest years of the war.' W...
Relative Values; Look After Lulu; Waiting in the Wings; Suite in Three Keys
Containing Coward's best work from the last two decades of his life, this volume includes Relative Values, which ran for over a year in 1951-2, Look A...
In the 1920s and 1930s Noël Coward mastered and defined the art of the revue sketch - short and often topical or satirical stage pieces, many of whic...
Noël Coward is remembered as the most witty and elegant of theatrical personalities. He left behind over fifty plays, twenty-five films, hundreds of ...
Coward's 'forgotten' play, published to tie in with its world premiere. In his wickedly funny final play, NöeI Coward takes us behind the scenes of a...
The definitive account, in his own words, of one of the most popular figures in British theatre. The second and concluding volume of Noël Coward's le...
Semi-Monde; Point Valaine; South Sea Bubble; Nude With Violin
Philip Hoare, in his biography of Coward described Semi-Monde as his "most daring play to date. In a chic Parisian hotel, a series of sexual pairings ...
The interwar English playwright Noël Coward is best known for his highly polished comedies of manners, including the enduring masterpieces ‘The Vor...
"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso....
A rich uncle announces he has a terminal illness and plans to leave his estate to one of his sister's children but under one condition. The family scr...
I am shirking off the chains that have shackled me for so long – I have suddenly come to realise that I am a woman – a living, passionate, pulsati...
Hay Fever; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; Easy Virtue
This first volume in the Coward Collection contains four plays written within a two year period when Coward and the century were still in their 20s. T...
The Noël Coward Reader offers a wonderfully wide-ranging selection—the first of its kind—of the best of the Master’s oeuvre, entertainingly ann...
A Play in Five Scenes
Noël Coward was one of the most celebrated characters in British theatrical history, with a career that spanned almost sixty years as a writer, actor...
'Still Life' is the love story that would become the classic film 'Brief Encounter'. A happily married housewife and a doctor meet each week - first a...
A Light Comedy in One Act by Noel Coward
Comedy / Characters: 6 male, 3 femaleScenery: InteriorOne of the Tonight At 8:30 series produced in London and New York. Lady Gilpin (Piggie) is so bu...