SOLDES

Jusqu'à -70% sur une sélection d'articles*

Masquerade. The Lives of Noël Coward

Par : Oliver Soden
Offrir maintenant
Ou planifier dans votre panier
Disponible dans votre compte client Decitre ou Furet du Nord dès validation de votre commande. Le format ePub protégé est :
  • Compatible avec une lecture sur My Vivlio (smartphone, tablette, ordinateur)
  • Compatible avec une lecture sur liseuses Vivlio
  • Pour les liseuses autres que Vivlio, vous devez utiliser le logiciel Adobe Digital Edition. Non compatible avec la lecture sur les liseuses Kindle, Remarkable et Sony
  • Non compatible avec un achat hors France métropolitaine
Logo Vivlio, qui est-ce ?

Notre partenaire de plateforme de lecture numérique où vous retrouverez l'ensemble de vos ebooks gratuitement

Pour en savoir plus sur nos ebooks, consultez notre aide en ligne ici
C'est si simple ! Lisez votre ebook avec l'app Vivlio sur votre tablette, mobile ou ordinateur :
Google PlayApp Store
  • Nombre de pages656
  • FormatePub
  • ISBN978-1-4746-1283-8
  • EAN9781474612838
  • Date de parution15/03/2023
  • Protection num.Adobe DRM
  • Infos supplémentairesepub
  • ÉditeurWeidenfeld & Nicolson

Résumé

'This is the biography - truthful, sympathetic and thorough - that Coward deserves'DAILY TELEGRAPHThe voice, the dressing-gown, the cigarette in its holder, remain unmistakable. There is rarely a week when one of Private Lives, Hay Fever, and Blithe Spirit is not in production somewhere in the world. Phrases from Noël Coward's songs - "Mad About The Boy", "Mad Dogs and Englishman" - are forever lodged in the public consciousness.
He was at one point the most highly paid author in the world. Yet some of his most striking and daring writing remains unfamiliar. As T. S. Eliot said, in 1954, "there are things you can learn from Noël Coward that you won't learn from Shakespeare". Coward wrote some fifty plays and nine musicals, as well as revues, screenplays, short stories, poetry, and a novel. He was both composer and lyricist for approximately 675 songs.
Louis Mountbatten's famous tribute argued that, while there were greater comedians, novelists, composers, painters and so on, only "the master" had combined fourteen talents in one. So central was he to his age's theatre that any account of his career is also a history of the British stage. And so daring was Coward's unorthdoxy in his closest relationships, obliquely reflected throughout his writing, that it must also be a history of sexual liberation in the twentieth century.
In Oliver Soden's sparkling, story-packed new Life, the Master finally gets his due.