Biography EssayNoel Coward was, after George Bernard Shaw, modern England's most prolific writer for the London stage. Throughout a career that spanned more than half a century, Coward was associated ...
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The English playwright, actor, and composer Noel Coward (1899-1973) was known for his genial urbanity and frequently acerbic wit.Noel Coward was born on December 16, 1899, in Teddingham, Middlesex, an...
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Noel Coward was, after George Bernard Shaw, modern England's most prolific writer for the London stage. Throughout a career that spanned more than half a century, Coward was associated with the lumin...
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"For me, the prewar past died on the day Mr. Neville Chamberlain returned with such gay insouciance from Munich," Noel Coward wrote in his diary (26 July 1945). Coward went on to write some twenty pla...
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Critical Essay by W. Somerset Maugham
It is in his dialogue that Mr. Coward has shown himself something of an innovator, for in his construction he has been content to use the current method of his d...
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Critical Essay by John Osborne
I have been quoting from ["The Noel Coward Diaries"] for three weeks, to an insolent, cowering wife and baffled, jeering friends. I first met The Master i...
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Critical Essay by Paul Fussell
At first I thought I wouldn't like [The Noël Coward Diaries], anticipating—correctly, it turned out—yards of theatrical gossip and name-drop...
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Critical Essay by James Mccourt
Ezra Pound defined literature as news that stays news. Literature is achieved by the sweated labors of a temperament facing the facts. Sir Noël Coward, playwrig...
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Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement
Mr. Coward is, or would have us believe that he is, extremely annoyed by those of his critics who inquire into his motives…. He adds, with the a...
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Critical Essay by St. John Ervine
Mr. Coward, who has often been held up as himself the prototype of the post-war young man, does not fulfil the popular conception of an irritable and irritating pers...
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Critical Essay by John Raymond
Any discussion of the art of Noël Coward must necessarily turn on the distinction between 'Drama' and 'Theatre'—and the value,...
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Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement
Whatever other enduring value [The Lyrics of Noël Coward] may turn out to possess, it will always be a fascinating document for the student of t...
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Critical Essay by Jere Real
One does not usually think of the late Sir Noël Coward, that ubiquitous eminence of the British theatre for five decades, as being particularly a "political&...
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Critical Essay by Douglas Dunn
Reading Noel Coward's plays encourages the belief that there is a point where Literature and Show Business meet. While it is difficult to know exactly what happe...
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Critical Essay by John Lahr
Coward's theatrical impulse came from a sense of his persona, not a sense of life. From his first produced play, I'll Leave It to You …, to his last, ...
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Critical Essay by David Hare
[The Noel Coward Diaries] record a life largely given over to the theatre and the company of friends. Much time is spent stacking name upon name…. Though his worst...
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Sheridan Morley, a theater critic, broadcaster and author of many show-business biographies, has died at the age of 65.Morley, who wrote for such publications as The Times of London, Punch, The Spe...
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Background Info
Richard ‘Dickie’ Attenborough
was born in
Cambridge
on 29 August, 1923. The son of the president of a theatrical organisation, he started acting at the tender age of...
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Question 1 of 10:
John
Mills
knew he wanted to be an actor since he was 6, but what was his occupation before his big break?
Door-to-door salesman
Street cleanerCar mechanicNurseQuestion 2 of 10:...
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Sheryl Crow, eyes rolling, apparently scoffed at mention of ex-beaux Lance Armstrong’s Ashley-Olsen antics; Tory Burch, on the other hand, doesn’t care. [Page Six] Ethiopian woman cla...
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Actress Pat Kirkwood, once a star of British musical theater, has died, a close family friend said Wednesday. She was 86.Kirkwood's career of more than 60 years included leading roles in musicals w...
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A new drama about the arms trade and an adaptation of a beloved war film are highlights of the coming season at Britain's National Theatre, artistic director Nicholas Hytner announced Thursday.Futu...
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Hugues Cuenod, the oldest singer ever to debut at the Metropolitan Opera, celebrates his 105th birthday Tuesday with a message to his younger colleagues: Don't shout.Cuenod, until recently the worl...
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Paris menswear designers showed an array of retro-flavored outfits on Friday, delivering a message that dressing up is cool again.Louis Vuitton and Kris Van Assche both delved into black-and-white ...
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Shanghai (dpa) The German Suite in the Peace Hotel is unoccupied
today although it once hosted the silent screen legend Charlie
Chaplin. Now, a single cold flame flic...
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