About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 57. Chapters: English lyricists, P. G. Wodehouse, Michael Moorcock, Tim Rice, Noel Coward, Carroll Coates, Chris Mosdell, Bernie Taupin, Adrian Ross, Charlie Simpson, Mark E. Smith, Laurence Mark Wythe, Norman Gimbel, Leslie Bricusse, Clifford Grey, Jeremy Nicholas, Don Black, Peter Rose and Anne Conlon, Arthur Wimperis, Richard Stilgoe, Christopher Hassall, Alex Westaway, Archibald Thomas Pechey, Eric Maschwitz, Jimmy Kennedy, Shaun McKenna, Norman Newell, William Jeffrey Prowse, Trisha Ward, Jeremy Sams, Richard Daniel Roman, Alexander S. Bermange, Gary Osborne, John "Speedy" Keene, Ralph Butler, Arthur Anderson, Douglas Furber, Charles Jefferys, Jennie Franks, Geoffrey Parsons, Ivy St. Helier, Anthony Drewe, Jack Brooks, John Turner, Greatrex Newman. Excerpt: Sir Noel Peirce Coward (16 December 1899 - 26 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise." Born in Teddington, a suburb of London, Coward attended a dance academy in London as a child, making his professional stage debut at the age of eleven. As a teenager he was introduced into the high society in which most of his plays would be set. Coward achieved enduring success as a playwright, publishing more than 50 plays from his teens onwards. Many of his works, such as Hay Fever, Private Lives, Design for Living, Present Laughter and Blithe Spirit, have remained in the regular theatre repertoire. He composed hundreds of songs, in addition to well over a dozen musical theatre works (including the operetta Bitter Sweet and comic revues), poetry, several volumes of short stories, the novel Pomp and Circumstance, and a three-volume autobiography. Coward's stage and film acting and directing career spanned six de...
