But the originality and psychological grasp of Coward's best plays prefigured much modern stage and screen writing.
There are letters received as well as letters sent in this collection edited by Barry Day, the self-appointed scholar of Coward's life and work, and they are grouped thematically rather than chronologically.
We've been down this road before, most recently with the disappointing 2010 Broadway revival of Coward's "Present Laughter, " in which Victor Garber was so much older than the role he was playing that the script had to be altered to cover up the fact.
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It's too early to pick, and I'm too cheap and sort of a coward with this stuff.
Computerized speech dictation will not make a doer out of a procrastinator or a hero out of a coward.
McGowan will also appear in a show featuring the work of Noel Coward.
They will play the glamorous, volatile ex-lovers in a story of their ill-fated 1983 revival of Noel Coward's stage play, Private Lives.
He is like a scrawny little brother - a bit of a coward, but essentially just young, and frightened and pretty loveable.
Just as important, Ms. Cattrall, who makes no secret of being 55, has been cast as a 30ish beauty in a play about the "bright young things" of whom Coward himself was a prime example.
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"Gates demonstrated that the old-school model of an Ivy-league degree, or a pedigreed family, isn't a requirement for career success, " says Katy Piotrowski, author of The Career Coward's Guide to Changing Careers.
They are lovingly put together, but feature a ghastly trio of (male) biographers sitting around chatting in The Ivy, Coward's favourite London restaurant, over what looks like a rather good lunch, when the subject cries out for one scholarly narrator with an overarching view and a rapidity of mind to rival Coward's own.
The late Noel Coward is one of many to have taken time-out at the hotel.
Pitt stars in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, a long-delayed drama about the notorious American outlaw.
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In this movie, as in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, " the physically slight, baby-faced actor is called upon to soak up a lot of patronizing put-downs.
Before the premiere, Pitt picked up an award that he won in Venice last year - the best actor's prize for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
It will be interesting to see if the drawing power of Russell Crowe and Brad Pitt (in the forthcoming "Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford") can buck that trend.
Either way, from there the sales of HD DVDs really drop off, so much so that the Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Crawford only sold 6.45-percent as many copies as Beowulf.
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Of particular interest are the letters Coward wrote in later life, particularly when under professional or personal pressure.
In the military great courage is often referred to as heroism, while a lack of courage will brand you a coward.
Early in the decade, Coward undertook a number of covert intelligence-gathering missions for a war that he was sure was coming.
Francesco Schettino, calling him "Captain Coward" and "Chicken of the Sea" when he has performed as well as many others at the helm.
Coward corresponded with a wide range of 20th-century figures, including Marlene Dietrich, Lawrence of Arabia, the Queen Mother and Harold Pinter, a British playwright who won the Nobel prize for literature in 2005 and who was 30 years younger than Coward.
Perhaps, to misquote Noel Coward, it is the extraordinary potency of cheap money.
Mr. Eyre, whose work hasn't been seen much on Broadway of late, mostly sticks to the script, letting Coward's lines make their point without excessive directorial interference.
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In Afghanistan, the media-savvy Taliban seized on the remarks and called Harry a "coward" for only speaking when he was out of danger.
How much gay innuendo in a lyric by Cole Porter or Larry Hart or Noel Coward was necessary to make it a legitimate part of the gay-cultural corpus?
Over a career that spanned nearly 70 years--Horst died in 1999 at the age of 93--Horst became best known for his photos of fashion and of fashionable figures including Coco Chanel, Marlene Dietrich and Noel Coward.
The water had been cold, her teeth had chattered, but her hands had not let go of the oar perhaps she had been a true coward, or perhaps she had been overcome by animal instinct, hanging on to life blindly.
"He was a coward, " Isaac Abraham, a community leader and neighbor of the couple, told WABC after Acevedo's arrest.
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