The Cream of Noël Coward

This is a selection of Coward's songs, lyrics, sketches, and scenes arranged by period, from early pieces through the 1920s and 1930s to wartime work and later verses. The material includes comic songs about English manners and travel, excerpts from stage comedies of marriage and drawing-room combat, and wartime pieces about the home front and the navy. Recurring subjects are parties, class, homesickness, and the theatre itself. There is no continuous plot. The volume is a sampler of a playwright-songwriter's public voice across five decades, not a biography and not a complete play text of any one work.

Bound in gold plasticised cloth with a design in black by Smithson. Dark green endleaves. Gold or dark green slipcase.