Título :	Relative values
Tipo de documento:	texto impreso
Autores:	Noel Coward, Autor
Editorial:	Heinemann
Fecha de publicación:	1952
Número de páginas:	111p
Idioma :	Inglés (eng)
Palabras clave:	LITERATURA INGLESA  TEATRO
Resumen:	How did I get that one wrong? A few issues back I blithely predicted that Harry Hill’s musical I Can’t Sing would run for three years. It closes this month, so I’m a little reluctant to praise another glittering comedy, Relative Values by Noël Coward, which, like Hill’s stricken satire, has received a few snubs from the critics. In his early dramas, Coward portrayed servants as amiable bunglers or bossy cynics and he rarely gave them more than one wisecrack per act. In Hay Fever, for example, the leading lady can’t even recall the housekeeper’s name, and her forgetfulness is supposed to be funny and attractive. Relative Values dates from 1951, when domestic service was in decline and social divisions were being steam-rollered flat. Coward’s response was to write a play in which the servants are fully realised characters who offer their employers shrewd advice and emotional support. It’s a fascinating slice of social history that shows the poshest of the posh grappling with the death of pedigree.

Relative values [texto impreso] / Noel Coward, Autor . - Heinemann, 1952 . - 111p.
Idioma : Inglés (eng)

Palabras clave:

LITERATURA INGLESA  TEATRO

Resumen:

How did I get that one wrong? A few issues back I blithely predicted that Harry Hill’s musical I Can’t Sing would run for three years. It closes this month, so I’m a little reluctant to praise another glittering comedy, Relative Values by Noël Coward, which, like Hill’s stricken satire, has received a few snubs from the critics. In his early dramas, Coward portrayed servants as amiable bunglers or bossy cynics and he rarely gave them more than one wisecrack per act. In Hay Fever, for example, the leading lady can’t even recall the housekeeper’s name, and her forgetfulness is supposed to be funny and attractive. Relative Values dates from 1951, when domestic service was in decline and social divisions were being steam-rollered flat. Coward’s response was to write a play in which the servants are fully realised characters who offer their employers shrewd advice and emotional support. It’s a fascinating slice of social history that shows the poshest of the posh grappling with the death of pedigree.