Noël Coward: The Playwright's Craft in a Changing Theatre

Focusing on Noël Coward's significant plays, this book utilizes unpublished archival material to explore his creative process from manuscript to performance. It highlights Coward's unique working practices and his adaptations of traditional theatrical formulas, alongside his engagement with themes of social and sexual relationships. While he remained distanced from the more radical movements of his era, Coward's experimentation with form and content reveals a complex understanding of theatrical self-consciousness.