Bloomsbury Home
- Home
- ACADEMIC
- Drama & Performance Studies
- Plays: 20th Century
- Blithe Spirit
Blithe Spirit
For information on how we process your data, read our Privacy Policy
Thank you. We will email you when this book is available to order
You must sign in to add this item to your wishlist. Please sign in or create an account
Description
I will ever be grateful for the almost psychic gift that enabled me to write Blithe Spirit in five days during one of the darkest years of the war.' Written in 1941, Blithe Spirit remained the longest-running comedy in British Theatre for three decades thereafter. Plotted around the central role of one of Coward's best loved characters, a spirit medium Madame Arcati (originally performed by Margaret Rutherford) Coward's play is an escapist comedy about a man whose two previous wives return to haunt him.
"A minor comic masterpiece of the lighter sort" Professor Allardyce Nicoll
Product details

Published | 04 Dec 2013 |
---|---|
Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 144 |
ISBN | 9781408191521 |
Imprint | Methuen Drama |
Series | Modern Classics |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
About the contributors
Reviews
-
Some of [Coward's] most sparkling dialogue ever... This play is about something substantial - the way past relationships come back to haunt us - but it's the gossamer-like nature of the piece, its sheer levity of spirit, that makes it such an enduring achievement.
Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph, 22.6.09
-
...it remains a fine example of Coward's craftsmanship and polished economy with words.
Paul Callan, Daily Express, 10.03.11