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A FINE Start for Some Very FINE Literature
With the bloody butchery of our once universally esteemed language going quite brilliantly on this, the left side of the pond; and those, the butchers on the right -- always happy enough to copy the worst of what America has to offer -- doing their own fair share of dialecticide, it is fortunate that we few, who truly treasure a well turned phrase, may discover, or...
Published 3 months ago by David Avender
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Unfortuneately these plays don't stand up as witty or interesting. I purchased them for the play Easy Virtue. This was the worst of the plays. Characters uninteresting,dialogue slow and not very clever. i had hopes of enjoying the upcoming film but this seems doubtful. Hayfever and The Vortex are a load of corn. Coward has either faded with his time or he...
Published on May 22, 2009 by Jon Swift
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A FINE Start for Some Very FINE Literature,
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This review is from: Coward Plays: 1: Hay Fever; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; Easy Virtue (World Classics) (Vol 1) (Paperback)
With the bloody butchery of our once universally esteemed language going quite brilliantly on this, the left side of the pond; and those, the butchers on the right -- always happy enough to copy the worst of what America has to offer -- doing their own fair share of dialecticide, it is fortunate that we few, who truly treasure a well turned phrase, may discover, or rediscover, some of the finest bits of English lit amidst this small collection of Sir Noel Coward's great works.
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This review is from: Coward Plays: 1: Hay Fever; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; Easy Virtue (World Classics) (Vol 1) (Paperback)
Unfortuneately these plays don't stand up as witty or interesting.I purchased them for the play Easy Virtue. This was the worst of the plays. Characters uninteresting,dialogue slow and not very clever. i had hopes of enjoying the upcoming film but this seems doubtful. Hayfever and The Vortex are a load of corn. Coward has either faded with his time or he had to be there to read the lines. |
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Coward Plays: 1: Hay Fever; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; Easy Virtue (World Classics) (Vol 1) by Noel Coward (Paperback - September 6, 1979)
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