Categorii: Necatalogate, Neclasificat
Limba: Engleza
Data publicării: 2023
Editura: Orion Publishing Co
Tip copertă: Hardcover
Nr Pag: 656
ISBN: 9781474612807
Dimensiuni: l: 16.4cm | H: 24cm | 5.6cm | 960g
From musicals and plays to relationships and personal quirks, this fascinating biography of Noel Coward sheds new light on the life, career and incredible body of work of this prolific and truly multi-talented man.
The voice, the dressing-gown, the cigarette in its holder, remain unmistakable. There is rarely a week when one of Private Lives, Hay Fever, and Blithe Spirit is not in production somewhere in the world. Phrases from Noel Coward's songs - Mad About The Boy, Mad Dogs and Englishman - are forever lodged in the public consciousness.
He was at one point the most highly paid author in the world. Yet some of his most striking and daring writing remains unfamiliar. As T.S. Eliot said, in 1954:
'There are things you can learn from Noel Coward that you won't learn from Shakespeare.'
Coward wrote some fifty plays and nine musicals, as well as revues, screenplays, short stories, poetry, and a novel. He was both composer and lyricist for approximately 675 songs. Louis Mountbatten's famous tribute argued that, while there were greater comedians, novelists, composers, painters and so on, only the master had combined fourteen talents in one.