Immagine dell'autore.

Noël Coward (1899–1973)

Autore di Blithe Spirit, Hay Fever, Private Lives: Three Plays

285+ opere 4,853 membri 66 recensioni 18 preferito

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In 1964, when Hay Fever (1925) was placed in the repertory of the newly organized National Theatre, Noel Coward professed to be grateful: "Bless you for admitting that I'm a classic." A week-long series of Coward played on BBC television in 1969; there have been major revivals in London and New mostra altro York; plays long out of print have been republished in popular collections. At the start of the 1960s, though, Coward's reputation had been at an ebb, as he skirmished with the angry new drama. Coward had enjoyed no big success since Blithe Spirit of 1941. There have been attempts to assimilate the rehabilitated Coward to contemporary drama. Coward himself profited from the new freedom when, in 1965, his Song at Twilight discussed homosexuality, a subject that he had evaded throughout his career. A juvenile prodigy, Coward was by turns actor, director, composer, lyricist, autobiographer, and author of nearly 60 theater pieces. He even wrote screenplays, notably for In Which We Serve (1942) and Brief Encounter (1946). Although he specialized in light comedy, the so-called comedy of manners, he worked in many forms including patriotic spectacle, revue, musical, farce, even the problem play. Hay Fever, Blithe Spirit, and Private Lives (1930) have proved to be the most durable of his comedies, along with nine short plays presented as Tonight at 8:30. In each, characters demonstrate the combination of perpetual role playing, cool hedonism, and energizing self-absorption. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Pirie MacDonald, from the Library of Congress

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Opere di Noël Coward

Blithe Spirit (1941) 327 copie
The Letters of Noël Coward (2007) 305 copie
The Noël Coward Diaries (1982) 200 copie
Amore e etichetta (1960) 182 copie
Play Parade (1933) 155 copie
Present Indicative (1937) 132 copie
The Cream of Noël Coward (1996) 132 copie
Star Quality (1951) 81 copie
Design for Living (1933) 56 copie
Future Indefinite (1954) 52 copie
Noël Coward Plays FIVE (1738) 51 copie
The Noël Coward Reader (2010) 47 copie
In Which We Serve [1942 film] (1942) — Regista; Screenwriter; Actor — 46 copie
To Step Aside (1939) 41 copie
Suite in Three Keys (1966) 40 copie
Design for Living [1933 film] (1933) — Original play — 39 copie
Tonight at 8:30 (1936) 34 copie
Still Life (1938) 30 copie
Quadrille (1952) 30 copie
Bon Voyage (1965) 30 copie
Cavalcade (1931) 29 copie
This Happy Breed (1945) 28 copie
Nude With Violin (1957) 26 copie
Hands Across the Sea (1938) 24 copie
Brief Encounter [Screenplay] (1984) — Screenplay — 23 copie
Modern plays (1937) — Autore — 22 copie
Middle East Diary (1944) 20 copie
Waiting in the Wings (1961) 18 copie
Oh Coward! (1974) 18 copie
Ways and Means (1935) 17 copie
Blithe Spirit [2021 film] (2021) — Autore — 16 copie
Peace in Our Time (1948) 15 copie
I'll Leave It to You (1920) 14 copie
Shadow Play (1938) 13 copie
Noël Coward Plays SEVEN (1999) 13 copie
Bitter Sweet (1929) 12 copie
Red Peppers (2010) 12 copie
Conversation Piece (1934) 11 copie
Second Play parade, (1939) 10 copie
The Wit of Noël Coward (1968) 10 copie
Cowardy Custard (1977) 10 copie
We Were Dancing (1938) 10 copie
Sail Away (2003) 9 copie
Sayings of Noël Coward (1997) 8 copie
Point Valaine (2013) 7 copie
Family Album (1938) 7 copie
Curtain Calls (1940) 7 copie
Noël Coward in Two Keys (1970) 7 copie
Spangled Unicorn (1933) 7 copie
Play Parade: Volume Four (1954) 6 copie
Noël Coward Songbook (2002) 6 copie
The Marquise (1938) 6 copie
Mad Dogs and Englishmen (2011) 5 copie
Play Parade: v. 5 (1934) 5 copie
A last encore (1973) — Autore — 4 copie
Ace of Clubs (2004) 4 copie
Pretty Polly Barlow (1964) 4 copie
A Room with a View (1999) 3 copie
South Sea Bubble (1958) 3 copie
Look After Lulu! (1959) 3 copie
The Noël Coward Album (1991) 3 copie
Compact Coward (1989) 3 copie
Mad About the Boy (2002) 3 copie
The Astonished Heart — Play — 3 copie
Commedie 3 copie
Plays [of] Noël Coward (1979) 2 copie
Short Stories Volume 1 (2006) 2 copie
Operette (1938) 2 copie
The Rat Trap 2 copie
Home Chat (2016) 2 copie
Pacific 1860 1 copia
Noel Coward Rediscovered (2001) 1 copia
Weatherwise 1 copia
PLAY PARADE (1934) 1 copia
Short Stories 1 copia
Shop-Girls 1 copia
Quadrille 1 copia
Mild Oats 1 copia
Chelsea Buns 1 copia
Intermezzo 1 copia
Eloquence 1 copia
Three plays 1 copia
Aunt Tittie 1 copia
Nature Study 1 copia
A Richer Dust 1 copia
Solali 1 copia
Mrs. Ebony 1 copia
Australia Visited 1940 (1941) 1 copia
Noël Coward Album (2006) 1 copia
Poste restante (2001) 1 copia
Songs to Amuse (1999) 1 copia
What Next 1 copia

Opere correlate

The Complete Saki (1933) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni1,289 copie
The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists (2000) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni550 copie
The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories (1994) — Collaboratore — 318 copie
24 Favorite One Act Plays (1958) — Collaboratore — 284 copie
The Italian Job [1969 film] (1969) — Actor — 203 copie
Around the World in 80 Days [1956 film] (1956) — Actor — 136 copie
Brief Encounter [1945 film] (1945) — Screenplay; Producer — 119 copie
Sixteen Famous British Plays (1942) — Collaboratore — 113 copie
Thirty Famous One-Act Plays (1943) — Collaboratore — 111 copie
Laurel British Drama: The Twentieth Century (1965) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni88 copie
The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children (1994) — Collaboratore — 72 copie
Paris When It Sizzles [1964 film] (1964) — Actor — 72 copie
Our Man in Havana [1959 film] (1959) — Actor — 58 copie
Blithe Spirit [1945 film] (1945) — Original play — 56 copie
Contemporary Drama - 11 Plays (1956) — Collaboratore — 46 copie
The Grass is Greener [1960 film] (2013) — Compositore — 46 copie
Comedy tonight!: Broadway picks its favorite plays (1977) — Collaboratore — 38 copie
14 great plays (1977) — Collaboratore — 31 copie
Remembering Mr. Maugham (1966) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni30 copie
Bunny Lake è scomparsa (1965) — Actor — 30 copie
The London Venture (1968) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni23 copie
This Happy Breed [1944 film] (1944) — Original play — 21 copie
Easy Virtue [1927 film] (1927) — Original play — 21 copie
Les Folies du Music-Hall (1962) — Prefazione; Prefazione — 17 copie
Cavalcade [1933 film] (1993) — Original play — 15 copie
The Panorama of Modern Literature (1934) — Collaboratore — 14 copie
Seven Famous One-Act Plays (Second Series) (1953) — Collaboratore — 12 copie
Travel in Vogue (1981) — Autore — 11 copie
The London Omnibus (1932) — Collaboratore — 8 copie
The Fireside Treasury of Modern Humor (1963) — Collaboratore — 5 copie
The Anthology of Love and Romance (1994) — Collaboratore — 5 copie
Stories of Scarlet Women (1962) — Collaboratore — 5 copie
Boom! [1968 film] (1968) — Actor — 4 copie
Nelson Doubleday, 1889-1949 (1949) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Surprise Package [1960 film] (1960) — Actor — 2 copie
Matty — Introduzione — 2 copie
Spionhistorier fra hele verden — Collaboratore — 2 copie
37 Favorites for Dancing (1958) — Compositore — 1 copia

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This "story of a ship", the British destroyer H.M.S. Torrin, is told in flashbacks by survivors as they cling to a life raft. (fonte Imdb)
 
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MemorialeSardoShoah | Feb 27, 2024 |
Il film si apre con la narrazione: "Questa è la storia di una nave" e le immagini della costruzione navale in un cantiere navale britannico. L'azione quindi avanza nel tempo mostrando la nave, HMS Torrin, impegnando i trasporti tedeschi in un impegno notturno durante la battaglia di Creta nel 1941. Tuttavia, quando l'alba si rompe, il cacciatorpediniere viene attaccato dai bombardieri tedeschi.
 
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MemorialSardoShoahDL | Sep 5, 2018 |
Arguto, intelligente, divertentissimo. Alle prese per la prima e l'unica volta col genere del romanzo Noël Coward dimostra che si può essere grandi anche applicandosi a un'opera apparentemente disimpegnata e fatta di niente. Un piccolo gioiello, peccato solo che in italiano non si possa conservare il titolo originale, quel geniale Pump and Circumstances che è veramente la ciliegina sulla torta.
 
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winckelmann | Sep 22, 2017 |

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Opere
285
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44
Utenti
4,853
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#5,175
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3.9
Recensioni
66
ISBN
348
Lingue
6
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