Coward Plays: 8: I'll Leave it to You; The Young Idea; This Was a Man

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Bloomsbury Academic, 2000 - Drama - 277 pages

The eighth volume in the Coward Collection includes I'll
Leave It To You and The Young Idea, the first of Coward's plays ever to
be produced. These were, as he said, "enthusiastically acclaimed by the
critics and ran five weeks and eight weeks respectively. In both of
them I appeared with the utmost determination."



This Was a Man, a
slightly later play, was written in 1926, after the successes which
made his name. It was originally banned by the Lord Chamberlain "for
facetious adultery".

From inside the book

 

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... FAITH : NO - I see . BOBBIE : Now that I have told you everything , Faith darling , will you - will you marry me ? FAITH : Yes , Bobbie- BOBBIE : Oh ! ( He kisses her . ) FAITH : If mother says I may . BOBBIE : Oh ! ( Mastering slight ...
Page 62
... Faith will tell you when the others come . ( Dragging FAITH back to C. ) FAITH : Look here , this isn't a bit fair of you . Bobbie will never forgive me . ... JOYCE : I can't help Bobbie's troubles - you should have thought of that ...
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... Faith ! Faith ! FAITH ( beard off ) : What is it ? BOBBIE : Come down and talk to me . FAITH : Don't be silly- BOBBIE : Please do - I've got lots to tell you . FAITH : Oh , all right - wait a minute . ( BOBBIE comes mooching into the ...

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Common terms and phrases

afraid anyhow arm-chair awfully beastly BERRY better BLACKWELL Blithe Spirit BOBBIE CAROL Charles Hawtrey Chesterfield CHURT CICELY cigarette CLAUD comes course CROMBIE CURTAIN Damn Danny darling DERMOTT door downstairs EDWARD EUSTACE EVANGELINE EVELYN everything Evie Exit FAITH feel film fool frightfully GEORGE GERDA R.C. glad goes Hallo happy Happy Breed HARRY hate Hay Fever HIRAM HUDDLE JENNIFER JOYCE JULIA kisses laughing leave live London look MARGOT MARIA marry mean mind morning mother moves never nice Noël Coward Nude With Violin OLIVER pause perfectly play Present Laughter PRISCILLA realise RODDY round settee SHOLTO and GERDA SIBYL silly sits sleeping sickness smiling sorry stairs stop suppose sure SYLVIA talk tell terribly Thank There's things thought Tibbets to-night told Tonight at 8.30 turns Uncle Daniel upstairs Vangy wait Walkin What's window wonderful Wrote Young Idea

About the author (2000)

Noël Coward was born in 1899 in Teddington, Middlesex. He made his name as a playwright with The Vortex (1924), in which he also appeared. His numerous other successful plays included Fallen Angels (1925), Hay Fever (1925), Private Lives (1933), Design for Living (1933) and Blithe Spirit (1941). During the war he wrote screenplays such as Brief Encounter (1944) and In Which We Serve (1942). In the fifties he began a new career as a cabaret entertainer. He published volumes of verse and a novel (Pomp and Circumstance, 1960), two volumes of autobiography and four volumes of short stories: To Step Aside (1939), Star Quality (1951), Pretty Polly Barlow (1964) and Bon Voyage (1967). He was knighted in 1970 and died three years later in Jamaica.

Bibliographic information

TitleCoward Plays: 8: I'll Leave it to You; The Young Idea; This Was a Man
Volume 8 of Collected Plays, Sheridan Morley
Coward collection, Noël Coward
Literature Online - Twentieth Century Drama
Methuen contemporary dramatists
Methuen drama
Methuen world classics
Online access: JISC British Library 19th Century Collection (BL) (Historical Texts)
Selections (Methuen Publishing Ltd.), Noel Coward
Works, Noel Coward
World Classics
AuthorNoël Coward
ContributorSheridan Morley
PublisherBloomsbury Academic, 2000
Original fromthe University of California
DigitizedMay 28, 2008
ISBN041375510X, 9780413755100
Length277 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Drama / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Drama / General
  
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