Coward Plays 6 : Semi-monde / Point Valaine / South Sea Bubble / Nude With Vi...

by Noël Coward

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Coward Plays 6 : Semi-monde / Point Valaine / South Sea Bubble / Nude With Violin, Paperback by Coward, Noel, ISBN 0413734102, ISBN-13 9780413734105, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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 take place through rendezvous, arguments, infidelities and reconciliations: sexual deviance is undisguised...set in the bisexual 1920s, the play could easily be populated by characters of Coward's society". Point Valaine is "the drama of a lurid episode of lust in the semi-tropics.. unmistakably the work of a master of the stage" (New York Times); South Sea Bubble which concerns "the Governor's lady in the Isle of Samolo who plays with native fire, nearly gets her wings singed, bashes her native admirer with a bottle and at one of those Coward next-morning-at breakfast scenes slips her way out of the scrape with feline grace." (Manchester Guardian) whilst Nude With Violin is a witty comedy about art fraud.

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Year: 2012
• Binding: Paperback
• ISBN: 9780413734105
• Condition: Fine

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