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Hay Fever

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By (author): Noël Coward

This 1925 comedy of manners that's funny yet also unorthodox and unsettling... a celebration of abnormality and at the same time a disquieting study of both the pleasures and the pains of not being able to restrain oneself. - Evening Standard When four guests, all invited by different members of the Bliss family, arrive for a weekend at their country house near Maidenhead, they're expecting a idyllic retreat. But this peaceful promise is quickly trounced when the self-absorbed eccentricities of the Blisses are trained on the guests, who leave the country mansion humiliated and embarrassed. First produced in 1925, Hay Fever is a technical masterpiece, seamlessly combining high farce with a comedy of manners, and delivering Coward his first major commercial success. This new edition is published in Methuen Drama's iconic Modern Classics series to coincide with the 125th anniversary of Cowards birth and features a new introduction by Michael Billington. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Jun 2023
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781350354111

About Noël Coward

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.

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