Hay Fever (Modern Classics) - Softcover

No�l Coward

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9780413540904: Hay Fever (Modern Classics)

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ISBN 10: 0413540901 ISBN 13: 9780413540904

Publisher: Methuen Drama, 2002

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First produced in 1925, Hay Fever is technically a masterpiece. A comedy of bad manners which starts with the arrival of four guests, invited independently by different members of the Bliss family for a weekend at their country house near Maidenhead. The promise of an idyllic and peaceful weekend is quickly trounced by the self-absorbed eccentricities of the family who leave the guests to slink away humiliated, embarrassed and abandoned.

"It does not date... it is in the highest mood of fantastic comedy, it is deliciously heartless and therefore delicioiusly alive and fresh" The Times

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A country house weekend goes haywire when the guests and their hosts play a game of romantic musical chairs. A most delightful madcap comedy.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Tate Donovan, Arabella Field, Joy Gregory, Jeffrey Jones, Lynne Marta, Serena Scott Thomas, Carolyn Seymour, Eric Stoltz and Simon Templeman.

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No�l 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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PublisherMethuen Drama
Publication date2002
ISBN 10 0413540901
ISBN 13 9780413540904
BindingPaperback
Number of pages112
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HAY FEVER (Methuen Drama, Modern Classics)

No�l Coward

Published by Methuen Drama, London, UK (2002)

ISBN 10: 0413540901 ISBN 13: 9780413540904

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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. First Edition, 5th Printing. Prized 1925 play from admired English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer Sir No�l Peirce Coward (1899 - 1973). A 3 Act masterpiece, comedy of manners. Set in a 1920s English country house, the four members of the Bliss family each invite a guest to spend the weekend with them. The very eccenticr, self-centred behaviour of the hosts finally drives their guests to leave while the Blisses are completely unaware their guests have all fled!. Seller Inventory # 019405

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