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David Edgar: Noël Coward’s Return, 9 December 1999
Collected Revue Sketches and Parodies
by Noël Coward.
Methuen, 282 pp., £9.99, April 1999,0 413 73390 4 Show More
by Noël Coward.
Methuen, 282 pp., £9.99, April 1999,
“... in Private Lives puts him on a par with Strindberg. A rather different reassessment is provided by Dan Rebellato, whose revisionist deconstruction of the Osborne revolution has a photograph of Blithe Spirit on the cover. Mindful of Coward’s 1961 plea to the self-expressive young playwrights of the Royal Court school to ‘consider the public’, Rebellato ... ”
