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Noël Coward : a biography / Philip Hoare.
- Title
- Noël Coward : a biography / Philip Hoare.
- Author
- Hoare, Philip
- Publication
- London : Sinclair-Stevenson, ©1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PR6005.O85 Z635 1995 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
- Description
- xii, 605 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), genealogical tables; 25 cm
- Summary
- "In 1931 Noel Coward was adjudged the highest-earning author in the world. He remains one of Britain's most famous sons: infant prodigy, playwright of genius, talented composer, writer and performer. His name is common currency; his epigrams endlessly quoted; and his plays still performed around the world." "Philip Hoare's authoritative new biography has been written with the approval and cooperation of Coward's Estate, and draws on a wealth of primary source material, including unpublished plays, correspondence and diaries. He has interviewed Coward's remaining contemporaries - friends and enemies - and has travelled to Europe, America, Africa and the Caribbean in pursuit of his subject. The true story of Coward's family circumstances, his childhood ambitions, early loves and meteoric rise to fame is charted in revealing detail. Hoare also examines the background to the dramatist's works, themselves a roll-call of success: The Vortex, Private Lives, In Which We Serve, Brief Encounter. The result is a wide-ranging and intimate record of the public profile and private life of one of the twentieth century's most celebrated figures."--Jacket.
- Subjects
- Actors
- Dramatists, English
- 1900-1999
- Coward, Noël
- Coward, Noël 1899-1973
- Coward, Noël, 1899-1973
- Coward, Noel, 1899-1973
- Biographies
- Biography
- Great Britain
- Biografie
- Acteurs > Grande-Bretagne > Biographies
- Dramaturges anglais > 20e siècle > Biographies
- Actors > Great Britain > Biography
- Dramatists, English > 20th century > Biography
- Association copies (Provenance)
- Genre/Form
- Association copies (Provenance)
- Biography
- Biographies
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Also issued online.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 1856192652
- 9781856192651
- 1856196725 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 96149770
- OCLC
- 34042271
- SCSB-13311013
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library