Chronology of Coward's Plays in Order of Composition (with first production dates) 1918 The Rat Trap (1926). 1919 I'll Leave it to You (1920). 1920 Barriers Down (unproduced). 1921 The Young Idea (1922), Sirocco (1927), The Better Half(1922). 1922 A Young Man's Fancy (unproduced), The Queen Was in the Parlour (1926), Bottles and Bones and Mild Oats (sketches, 1922). 1923 London Calling! (1923), The Vortex (1924), Fallen Angels (1925), Weatherwise (sketch, 1932). 1924 Hay Fever (1925), Easy Virtue (New York 1925, London 1926). 1925 On With the Dance (1925). 1926 Semi-Monde (1977), This Was a Man (New York 1926), The Marquise (1927). 1927 Pretty Prattle (sketch, 1927), Home Chat (1927). 1928 This Year of Grace! (1928), Concerto (unproduced screenplay). 1929 Bitter-Sweet (1929). 1930 Private Lives (1930), Post Mortem (1944, POW production), Some Other Private Lives (sketch, 1930). 1931 Cavalcade (1931). 200
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Chronology of Coward's Plays in Order of
Composition
(with first production dates)
1918 The Rat Trap (1926). 1919 I'll Leave it to You (1920). 1920 Barriers Down (unproduced). 1921 The Young Idea (1922), Sirocco (1927), The Better Half(1922). 1922 A Young Man's Fancy (unproduced), The Queen Was in the Parlour
(1926), Bottles and Bones and Mild Oats (sketches, 1922). 1923 London Calling! (1923), The Vortex (1924), Fallen Angels (1925),
Weatherwise (sketch, 1932). 1924 Hay Fever (1925), Easy Virtue (New York 1925, London 1926). 1925 On With the Dance (1925). 1926 Semi-Monde (1977), This Was a Man (New York 1926), The
Marquise (1927). 1927 Pretty Prattle (sketch, 1927), Home Chat (1927). 1928 This Year of Grace! (1928), Concerto (unproduced screenplay). 1929 Bitter-Sweet (1929). 1930 Private Lives (1930), Post Mortem (1944, POW production), Some
Other Private Lives (sketch, 1930). 1931 Cavalcade (1931).
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1932 Design for Living (New York 1933, London 1939), Words and Music (1932).
1933 Conversation Piece ( 1934). 1934 Point Valaine (1934). 1935 Tonight at 8.30 (ten plays, 1935). 1937 Operette (1938). 1939 Present Laughter (1942), This Happy Breed (1942). 1940 Time Remembered (unproduced). 1941 Blithe Spirit (1941), Screenplay for In Which We Serve (1942). 1945 Sigh No More (1945), Pacific I860 (1946). 1946 Peace in Our Time (1947). 1947 Long Island Sound (unproduced). 1949 South Sea Bubble (1956), Ace of Clubs (1950). 1950 Relative Values ( 1951). 1951 Quadrille (1952). 1954 Nude with Violin (1956). 1956 Volcano (unproduced). 1958 Look after Lulu! (adaptation of Feydeau's Occupe-toi d'Amelie,
1959). 1959 Waiting in the Wings (1960). 1961 Sail away (1961, London 1962). 1965 Suite in Three Keys (1966).
(This list does not include adaptations for the screen of his own works, non-dramatic verse, or prose or songs not collected in revues.)
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References 1. The Mask
1. Play Parade, Vol. I, Heinemann 1934, p. x. 2. Play Parade, Vol. V, Heinemann 1958, p. xxxii. 3. Cole Lesley, The Life of Noel Coward, Jonathan Cape 1976,
p. 57. 4. Rose Snider, Satire in the Comedies ofCongreve, Sheridan, Wilde
and Coward, Phaeton Press, New York, 1937, p. 116. 5. New York Times, 28 December 1969. 6. Cecil Beaton, Self Portrait with Friends, Weidenfeld and
Nicholson 1979, pp. 11-12. 7. Sunday Chronicle, 26 April1925. 8. Future Indefinite, Heinemann 1954, p. 51. 9. John Lahr, Coward the Playwright, Methuen 1982, p. 5.
10. Walter Benjamin, Illuminations, Fontana 1970, pp. 232-3. 11. Present Indicative, Heinemann 1937, pp. 200-1. 12. Cyril Connolly, The Dandy, in The Evening Colonnade, David
Bruce and Watson 1973, p. 167.
2. Society's Hero
1. The Oxford Book of 20th Century Verse, Ed. Larkin, OUP 1973, p. 320.
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References
la. The Times, 27 November 1924. 2. Quoted in Richard Findlater, Banned! A Study of Theatrical
Censorship in Britain, Macgibbon and Kee 1967, p. 77. 3. Foreword, Mander and Mitchenson, Musical Comedy, Davies,
1969. 4. How I Write my Songs, reprinted Noel Coward and His Friends ed.
Lesley, Payn and Morley, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1979, p. 67. 5. Ivor Brown, The Rise and Fall of the Matinee Idol, ed. Curtis, New
English Library 1976, p. 35. 6. Quoted Cole Lesley, The Life of Noel Coward, Cape 1976, p. 434. 7. Mander and Mitchenson, A Theatrical Companion to Coward,
Rockliff 1957, p. 145. 8. Present Indicative, Heinemann 1937, p. 121. 9. Play Parade II, Heinemann 1939, p. ix.
10. Wilfred Owen, Poems, Chatto and Windus, 1920. Preface. 11. Alan Jenkins, The Twenties, Heinemann 1974, p. 5. 12. Owen, op. cit., The Parable of the Old Manandthe Young, p. 57. 13. Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies, Eyre Methuen 1961, p. 129. 14. Quoted Margaretson, The Long Party, Saxon House,
Farnborough, 1974, p. 52. 15. James Agate, Saturday Review, 17 February 1923. 16. Play Parade I, Heinemann 1934, p. xi. 17. The Author's Reply to his Critics, Introduction to Three Plays,
Benn, 1925, p. ix. 18. Quoted Charles Castle, Noel, W. H. Allen 1974, p. 65. 19. St. John Irvine, Observer, 27 November 1927. 20. Play Parade II, Heinmann 1939, p. ix. 21. New York Times, 8 December 1925. 22. John Russell Taylor, The Rise and Fall of the Well-Made Play,
Methuen 1967, p. 139.
3. Consider the Audience ...
1. Emlyn Williams, Foreword, The Turbulent Thirties, Mander and Mitchenson, Macdonald 1960, p. 9.
2. Eagleton, Exiles and Emigres, Chatto and Windus 1970, p. 73. 3. Quoted in Parker, The Story and the Song, Elm Tree Books 1979,
p. 82. 4. Mander and Mitchenson, Theatrical Companion to Coward,
op. cit., p. 143. 5. Play Pictorial, vol. lv, no. 330. 6. Sketch, 30 March 1938. 7. Present Indicative, p. 304.
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8. Present Indicative, p. 401. 9. Rene Cutforth, Later Than We Thought, David and Charles 1976,
p. 34. 10. Mander and Mitchenson, Theatrical Companion to Coward,
op. cit., p. 195. 11. Play Parade IV, Heinemann 1954, p. x. 12. lvor Brown, Observer, 12 January 1936. 13. Janet Flanner ('Genet') London Was Yesterday, Michael Joseph
1970, p. 140. 14. Sunday Times, 15 January 1961. 15. Present Indicative, p. 117. 16. Sellars and Yeatman, /066 and All That, Methuen 1930, p. vii. 17. Quoted Sheridan Morley, A Talent to Amuse, Penguin 1974,
pp. 184-5. 18. Daily Telegraph, 14 October 1931. 19. Play Parade I, Heinemann 1934, p. x. 20. Present Indicative, p. 270. 21. Documentary News Letter, Vol. I, 1944.
4. 'I've Had to Formulate a Creed ... '
1. William Marchant, The Privilege of his Company, Weidenfeld and Nicholson 1975, p. 19.
2. The Noel Coward Diaries, ed. Payn and Morley, Weidenfeld and Nicholson 1982, p. 36, 26 July 1945.
3. Diaries, p. 179, 25 October-! November 1951. 4. Diaries, p. 448, 11 September 1960. 5. Kenneth Tynan, Tynan on Theatre, Pelican 1964, p. 31. 6. John Whiting, Coward Cruising, The London Magazine, vol. 2
no. 5 p. 64. 7. John 0' London's Weekly, 14 December 1951. 8. Diaries, p. 454, 16 December 1960. 9. Diaries, p. 409, 5 May 1959.
10. Diaries, p. 380, 25 May 1958. 11. John Raymond, Play, Orchestra, Play, New Statesman vol. LIV
25 October 1958. 12. Quoted Noel Coward and his Friends, ed. Payn and Morley,
Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1979, p. 178. 13. The Scratch and Mumble School, Sunday Times, 22 January 1961. 14. These Old-fashioned Revolutionaries, Sunday Times, 15 January
1961. 15. Sunday Times, 22 January 1961. 16. Sunday Times, 22 January 1961.
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References
17. Collected Short Stories, Methuen 1962, p. 483. 18. Collected Short Stories, p. 429. 19. Daily Mail, 8 September 1960. 20. Daily Express, 8 September 1960. 21. Sunday Times, 11 September 1960. 22. Diaries, p. 447. 11 September 1960. 23. Diaries, p. 497, 19 February 1962. 24. John Whiting, Coward Cruising. 25. Quoted Morley, A Talent to Amuse, p. 367. 26. Diaries, p. 679, 31 December 1969, the final entry. 27. Diaries, p. 512, 28 August 1962. 28. John Russell Taylor, The Rise and Fall of the Well-made Play,
Methuen 1967, p. 144. 29. Diaries, p. 601, 23 June 1965. 30. Diaries, p. 452, 11 November 1960. 31. E.g., The Times, 15 April1966. 32. Lahr, Coward the Playwright, p. 159. 33. Quoted Lahr, Coward the Playwright, p. 159. 34. D. A. N. Jones, New Statesman, vo!. 71. p. 623, 26 April1966. 35. New Statesman, 26 April 1966.
5. Mainly about Style
1. Kenneth Tynan, Tynan on Theatre, Pelican 1964, p. 288. 2. Terence Rattigan, Noel Coward: An Appreciation of his work in
the Theatre, Preface, Mander and Mitchenson, Theatrical Companion to Coward, Rackliff 1957, p. 6.
3. Quoted Morley, A Talent to Amuse, Penguin 1974, p. 362. 4. Coward interviewed by Walter Harris on Talking About Theatre,
Decca PLP 1138. 5. Tynan, Some Notes on Stage Sexuality, op. cit., p. 325. 6. Noel Coward talks to Robert Muller, Harper's Bazaar, August
1960. 7. Play Parade I, Heinemann 1934. 8. Christopher Isherwood, The World in the Evening, Methuen 1954. 9. Mark Booth, Camp, Quartet 1983, p. 17.
10. Quoted John Lahr, Prick Up Your Ears, Penguin 1980, p. 127. 11. Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation, Eyre and Spottiswoode
1967, p. 286. 12. John Lahr, Coward the Playwright, Methuen 1982, p. 5. 13. Present Indicative, Heinemann 1937, p. 373. 14. William Marchant, The Privilege of his Company, Weidenfeld and
Nicolson 1975, p. 137.
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15. Kenneth Tynan, Tynan on Theatre, p. 287. 16. Noel Coward, A Withered Nosegay, 1922, reprinted Methuen
1984, p. 104. 17. Laurence Olivier, Confessions of an Actor, Coronet 1984, p. 70. 18. Diaries, p. 581, 11 November 1964. 19. John Russell Taylor, The Rise and Fall of the Well Made Play,
Methuen 1967, p. 140. 20. Quoted Kenneth Muir, The Comedy of Manners, Hutchinson
1970, p. 23. 21. George Meredeth, On the Idea of Comedy, Collected Works vol.
xxxii, Constable and Co. 1898, p. 46. 22. Andrew Britton, Comedy and Male Desire, Tyneside Cinema
Publications, Newcastle, 1983. 23. Roland Barthes, Barthes on Barthes, Tr. Howard, Macmillan
1977, p. 62.
6. Five Comedies
1. Not Yet the Dodo and Other Verses, Heinemann 1967, p. 34. 2. Graves and Hodge, The Long Weekend, Four Square 1961,
p. 143. 3. Sheridan Morley, A Talent to Amuse, Penguin 1974, p. 388. 4. Cole Lesley, The Life of Noel Coward, Jonathan Cape 1976,
p. 139. 5. Present Indicative, Heinemann 1937, p. 393. 6. Present Indicative, p. 395. 7. Sheridan Morley, Gertrude Lawrence, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
1981, p. 101. 8. New Statesman, vol. 36, 11 December 1930. 9. Weekend Review, 4 October 1930.
10. Play Parade I, Heinemann 1934, p. xvii. 11. Observer, 29 January 1939. 12. Observer, 29 January 1939. 13. John Lahr, Coward the Playwright, Methuen 1982, p. 85. 14. John Lahr, Coward the Playwright, p. 82. 15. Present Indicative, pp. 158-9. 16. Maurice Zolotow, Stagestruck, Heinemann 1965, p. 132. 17. O'Neill, Strange Interlude, Jonathan Cape 1928, p. 112. 18. The Times, 26 January 1939. 19. Sheridan Morley, Review Copies, Robson 1974, p. 220. 20. The Noel Coward Diaries, Payn and Morley, Weidenfeld and
Nicolson 1982, p. 6, April 1941. 21. Gareth Lloyd Evans, The Language of Modern Drama, Dent
1977, p. 29.
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References
22. Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Penguin 1973, p. 717.
23. Lahr, Coward the Playwright, p. 32. 24. Sunday Times, 29 January 1961.
7. Afterword
1. Cosmopolitan, November 1985. 2. Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, Moscow 1844,
p. 101.
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Bibliography
I. Collected plays Play Parade I (Cavalcade, Design for Living, Bitter-Sweet, Private Lives,
Hay Fever, The Vortex, Post Mortem), (Heinemann 1934). Play Parade II (This Year of Grace!, Words and Music, Operette,
Conversation Piece, Easy Virtue, Fallen Angels), (Heinemann 1939). Play Parade III (The Queen was in the Parlour, I'll Never Leave You,
Sirocco, The Young Idea, The Rat Trap, This Was a Man, Home Chat, The Marquise), (Heinemann 1950).
Play Parade IV (Tonight at 8.30, Present Laughter, This Happy Breed), (Heinemann 1954).
Play Parade V (Blithe Spirit, Peace in Our Time, Quadrille, Relative Values, Pacific 1860), (Heinemann 1958).
Play Parade VI (Point Valaine, Ace of Clubs, South Sea Bubble, Nude with Violin, Waiting in the Wings), (Heinemann 1962).
Eyre Methuen Master Playwrights collection in five volumes contains: Plays One: Hay Fever, The Vortex, Fallen Angels, Easy Virtue. Plays Two: Private Lives, Bitter-Sweet, The Marquise, Post-Mortem. Plays Three: Design for Living, Cavalcade, Conversation Piece, Tonight at
8.30 [. Plays Four: Tonight at8.30 II, Blithe Spirit, Present Laughter, This Happy
Breed. Plays Five: Relative Values, Waiting in the Wings, Look After Lulu, Suite
in Three Keys, ed. Mander and Mitchenson (Eyre Methuen 1979).
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Bibliography
II. Other work by Noel Coward Present Indicative (Heinemann 1937), and Future Indefinite (Heinemann
1954). The Noel Coward Diaries, ed. Payn and Morley, (Weidenfeld and
Nicolson 1982). Collected Short Stories (Methuen 1983). Pomp and Circumstance (novel, Methuen 1983). The Lyrics of Noel Coward (Methuen 1983). Not Yet the Dodo and Other Verses (Heinemann 1967). A Withered Nosegay: Three Cod Pieces (Methuen 1984).
III. Books about Noel Coward The best biographical accounts are The Life of Noel Coward by Cole Lesley, Coward's secretary and companion (Jonathan Cape 1976), and Sheridan Morley's A Talent to Amuse (Penguin 1974).
Additional useful photographic material can be found in Noel by Charles Castle (W. H. Allen 1972) and Noel Coward and his Friends, ed. Lesley, Payn and Morley (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1979).
The most valuable reference book is Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson's Theatrical Companion to Coward (Rockliff 1957), indispensable to any study of Coward.
There is, unfortunately a considerable lack of good critical books on Coward; there are passing references in most books on modern theatre and some early studies of his work, but few detailed critical studies of the entire oeuvre. Any book on Coward at present will therefore, inevitably, incur a great debt to the work of John Lahr, whose study Coward the Playwright (Methuen 1982) is the latest and the best to put forward a coherent thesis about Coward's work.
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Index Agate, James 32, 178 Allen, Adrienne 119, 154 All Quiet on the Western Front
(Remarque) 49 Animal Crackers 160 Archer, William 23 Arden, John 94, 95 Arlen, Michael 29 Artaud, Antonin 105 Auden, W. H. 50, 130
Baldwin, Stanley 49 Barker, Harley Granville 20 Barrets of Wimpole Street,
The (Besier) 51 Barrie, J. M. 169 Barthes, Roland 145-6 Baudelaire 10 Beaton, Cecil 7 Beaumont, Hugh ('Binkie') 84 Beckett, Samuel 5, 92, 147-
8, 150, 169 Behan, Brendan 92
Benjamin, Walter 12 Bergson, Henri 153 Between the Acts (Woolf) 76 Beveridge Report 82 Birthday Party, The (Pinter)
94 Blakemore, Michael 168 Booth, Mark 121 Bolt, Robert 195 Braithwaite, Lilian 36 Brecht 19,21,51,86,92, 93,
105 Brett, Jeremy 168 Bridie, James 85 Brien, Alan 111 Brighton Rock (Greene) 130 Britton, Andrew 143 Brown, Ivor 22, 57-8, 64,
156-7 Burton, Richard 66
Calthrop, Gladys 18, 70, 127, 128, 166
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Index
Careless Rapture (Novello) 52
Chanel 28 Charlot, Andre 34, 117, 125 Chamberlain, Joseph 77 Clare, Mary 75 Chekhov 19 Churchill, Winston 8, 83 Cochran, C. B. 21, 70, 117 Comedy of Errors, The 171 Congreve, William 6, 123,
127, 138 Conrad, 28 Constant Nymph, The
(Kennedy) 29 Cowardy Custard 106 Coward, Noel
PLAYS AND SCREENPLAYS:
Ace of Clubs 88 Astonished Heart, The
(Tonight at 8.30) 61, 63-4
Bitter-Sweet 8, 9, 12, 47, 53-7
Blithe Spirit 5, 11, 104, 105, 125, 127, 168-77
Brief Encounter (Still Life) (Tonight at 8.30) 64-7
Cavalcade 12, 21, 27, 48, 69-77, 78, 115, 196
Come into the Garden, Maud (Suite in Three Keys) 107
Conversation Piece 57, 104 Design for Living 5, 11,
8.30) 61-2 Relative Values 83, 88--91 Sail A way 104 Semi-Monde 15, 45-6 Shadow Play (Tonight at
8.30) 62, 63, 136 Shadows of the Evening
(Suite in Three Keys) 107
Sirocco 13, 33-4, 44-5, 59, 109
Song at Twilight, A (Suite in Three Keys) 15, 106-12
South Sea Bubble 11, 87-8, 115
Still Life (Tonight at 8.30) 64-7 see also Brief Encounter
Suite in Three Keys 106-7, 195
This Happy Breed 14, 77-8,96
This Was a Man 44 This Year of Grace 46 Tonightat8.30 61-7,104 Vortex, The 11, 12, 14, 18--
19,29,34-9,45,51, 91, 92,98, 105,118,183
Wailing in the Wings 83, 98--104
Ways and Means (Tonight at8.30) 61
We Were Dancing (Tonight at 8.30) 61
Young Idea, The 5, 31-3, 178
SONGS:
Dance Little Lady 46-7 Don't Let's Be Beastly to
the Germans 80 I'll Follow My Secret Heart
57 I'll See You Again 57, 130 I Wonder What Happened
to Him? 132, 137 Mad Dogs and Englishmen
131-2, 133 Parisian Pierrot 34, 118 Poor Little Rich Girl 39-40 Someday I'll Find You 130 Stately Homes of England,
The 133 Three Juvenile Delinquents
88 Twentieth Century Blues
48--9, 75 OTHER:
Present Indicative 8, 14, 25, 78, 159
Play Parade (Prefaces) One 3, 157 Four 61
Pomp and Circumstance 104
Star Quality 96-8 Withered Nosegay, A 134
Cutforth, Rene 58
Dancing Years, The (Novello) 52
Daily Mail 27, 98 Daily Telegraph 76-7 Day-Lewis, Cecil 50 Delaney, Shelagh 92, 93, 95 Devils, The (Whiting) 105 Devine, George 92
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Index
Devine, Lauri 46 Dobr~e, Bonamy 140 Dog Beneath the Skin, The
(Auden & Isherwood) 50
Doll's House, The (Ibsen) 18,20
Eagleton, Terry 50 Edward VIII 52 Eliot, T. S. 148 Elsie, Lily 12 Evans, Edith 51, 188
Feydeau 171 Field, Lila 21 Film (Beckett) 150 die Fledermaus 53 Fontanne, Lynn 159-60 Freud 28
"Genet" (Janet Flanner) 67 George and Margaret 51 George V 40, 44, 67 Ghosts (Ibsen) 35, 36 Gielgud, John 51, 96, 183 Gilbert and Sullivan 21 Glamorous Night (Novello)
52 Goethe 109 Goldfish, The 21 Goodbye To All That
(Graves) 49 Goodbye to Berlin
(Isherwood) 50 Grant Cary 142-3 Graves, Robert 148 Green Hat, The (Arlen) 6, 29 Guiness, Alec 51 Guys and Dolls 88
Haigh, Kenneth 92 Hammond, Kay 176 Hannele 21 Hare, Robertson 51 Harrison, Rex 177 Hauptmann 21 Hawks, Howard 142-4 Hawtrey, Charles 12, 21-2,
96 Hecht and MacArthur 1 Hepburn, Katharine 142 Hitchcock, Alfred 169 H. M. Tennent Ltd 84 Hobson, Harold 98 Huxley, Aldous 28, 148
Ibsen 19, 20 Illustrated London News 27-
8, 70, 77 Importance of Being Earnest,
The 171 Irvine, StJohn 40, 46 Isherwood, Christopher 120,
125 Italian Job, The 3
James, Henry 20 Jellicoe, Ann 198 Johnson, Celia 66 Johnson, Richard 177 Johnson over Jordan
(Priestley) 169 Jones, Henry Arthur 20 Journey's End (Sheriff) 49,
68 Joyce, James 5, 148
Kaufman and Hart 50-1 Kelly, Grace 89
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Index
Kennedy, Margaret 29 Knack, The (Jellicoe) 198
Labiche 171 Lady Chatterley's Lover
(Lawrence) 108 Lady Frederick (Maugham)
38, 186 Lahr, John 6, 11, 11G--11,
126-7, 192-3, 209 Lawrence D. H. 28 Lawrence, Gertrude 34, 51,
61,98, 128,133-4,149, 151-4, 160
Lawrence, T. E. 151 Lean, David 64-6, 80 Lecoq 21 Lehar 52 Lesley, Cole 117, 209 Levin, Bernard 98 Littler, Prince 84 Littlewood, Joan 92 Lloyd Evans, Gareth 169 Look Back in Anger
(Osborne) 92-3 Loren, Sophia 66 Love for Love 138 Lunt, Alfred 6G--1, 159-60
MacCarthy, Desmond 156 MacNeice, Louis 130 Marx, Groucho 160 Marx, Karl 198 Mary Rose (Barrie) 169 Maugham, W. Somerset 15,
23,38, 108,112,137,197 du Maurier, Daphne 169-70 du Maurier, Gerald 34, 40,
New Statesman, The 85-6, 93 New Yorker, The 67 New York Times 7, 41 Novello, lvor 33, 44, 51-2
Observer, The 51, 158 O'Casey, Sean 51, 85 Occupe-toi d'Amelie (Look
after Lulu) 171 O'Connor, Una 75 Offenbach 21 Oh! Coward! 106 Olivier, Laurence 51, 119,
135, 154 O'Neill, Eugene 16G--2 Orton, Joe 4, 123-4, 171,
198 Orwell, George 50 Osborne, John 92-3, 114-15 Owen, Wilfred 26
Peter Pan (Barrie) 21, 58 Pinero, Arthur Wing 23, 24,
35,38,41,187 Pinter, Harold 4, 94-5, 177,
197, 198 Pirandello 19 Piscator 51 Play (Beckett) 169
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Index
Playmaking (Archer) 23 Play Pictorial 56 Plays Pleasant (Shaw) 20 Pound, Ezra 28 Preminger, Otto 3 Price, Dennis 177 Priestley, J. B. 51, 169 Printemps, Yvonne 57 Pudovkin 79 Pygmalion (Shaw) 62
Quaker Girl, The 21
Rainier, Prince 89 Rattigan, Terence 85, 104,
112, 114 Rebecca (du Maurier) 169-
70, 171-3 Redgrave, Vanessa 168 Richard of Bordeaux
('Gordon Daviot') 51 Romberg, Sigmund 52 Roose-Evans, James 105 Rutherford, Margaret 173
Sartre, Jean Paul 86 Scoundrel, The 1-2, 104, 111 Scribe 23-4 Second Mrs Tanqueray, The
(Pinero) 24, 41 Sellar and Yeatman 70 Sexual Offences Act 108 Shaw 5-6, 20, 51 Sheridan 6 Showboat 52-3, 57 Silver Tassie, The (O'Casey)
49 Sitwells 134 Sketch, The 18, 57
Sleeping Prince, The (Rattigan) 104
Sontag, Susan 120, 125 Spender, Stephen 50 Stamboul Train (Greene) 50,
130 St Joan (Shaw) 51 Strange Interlude (O'Neill)
16(}.-2 Strindberg 19 Stanislavsky 21 Stopes, Marie 28 Sunday Dispatch 49 Sunday Times 94--7, 98
Taste of Honey, A (Delaney) 92-3
Taylor, John Russell 44, 107, 139
Tempest, Marie 188 1066 And All That (Sellar and
Yeatman) 70 Thomas, Keith 174 Thorndike, Sybil 38 Times, The 18, 167 Tracy, Spencer 142 Tree, Herbert Beerbohm 20 Trewin, J. C. 91 Tunnel Trench 48, 52 Tynan, Kenneth 58, 85, 114,
118, 133
Ustinov, Peter 85
Vedrenne 20 Vile Bodies (Waugh) 27
Waiting for Godot (Beckett) 147-8, 169
Wallace, Edgar 51
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Index
Walpole, Hugh 4 War in the Air 21 Waste Land, The (Eliot) 148 Waugh, Evelyn 27 Wedekind 19 Wells, H. G. 50 Wesker, Arnold 94---5 West, Rebecca 148-9 What the Butler Saw (Orton)
171 While the Sun Shines
(Rattigan) 112
Whiting, John 86, 104---5 Wilde 22, 123, 124, 127, 137,
197 Willis, Ted 85 Williams, Emlyn 48, 52 Woolf, Virginia 46, 76 World in the Evening, The
