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Bernard Shaw and Noël Coward: Conversation Pieces

By (author) Christopher Wixson

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This book tracks dramaturgical affinities between some of Bernard Shawâ€™s late â€œextravagantâ€ plays and those of NoÃ«l Coward, in particular their recasting of one anotherâ€™s style and the tradition of manners comedy. While Cowardâ€™s first play (The Young Idea) all but plagiarizes You Never Can Tell and Shaw responds with his own depictions of the idle rich, their experimental plays in the 1930s also ambitiously engage issues of race and Empire, topics further outside their respective idioms. â€œChristopher Wixson mines Shawâ€™s rarely-explored engagement with the work of NoÃ«l Coward, examining both writers' highly experimental plays from the 1930s in light of such important issues as postwar disillusionment, racial difference, and post-coloniality.â€ Michel Pharand, Queen's University

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