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Bernard Shaw and Noël Coward: Conversation Pieces
Paperback
Series: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
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ISBN13: 9783031902932
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jun 18 2026
Pages: 213
Language: English
This book tracks dramaturgical affinities between some of Bernard Shaw's late extravagant plays and those of Noël Coward, in particular their recasting of one another's style and the tradition of manners comedy. While Coward'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.
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