Noel Coward Summary

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 ... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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,... Read more

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&... Read more

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, ... Read more