{"product_id":"9781408162187","title":"Coward Plays: 2: Private Lives; Bitter-Sweet; The Marquise; Post-Mortem","description":"The plays in this volume demonstrate the extraordinary skill and\u003cbr\u003eversatility Coward's writing achieved in the late 1920s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe volume contains\u003cbr\u003ehis best-loved classic, \u003ci\u003ePrivate Lives\u003c\/i\u003e, which was an immeditate hit when\u003cbr\u003eit was first staged in 1930. Coward's sparkling dialogue and repartee\u003cbr\u003ehave ensured the play's popularity ever since. Of \u003ci\u003eBitter-Sweet\u003c\/i\u003e in 1929 Noël Coward wrote that it was \"a musical that gave\u003cbr\u003eme more complete satisfaction than anything else I had yet written. Not\u003cbr\u003eespecially on acount of its dialogue or its lyrics or its music or its\u003cbr\u003eproduction but as a whole.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Marquise \u003c\/i\u003eis an \"eighteenth century\u003cbr\u003ecomedy\" filled with maids and duels, whilst \u003ci\u003ePost-Mortem\u003c\/i\u003e is a\u003cbr\u003evilification of war that contains some of Coward's most powerful\u003cbr\u003ewriting.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47151929000176,"sku":"9781408162187","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781408162187_p0.jpg?v=1763720509","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781408162187","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}