Collected Anthologies


Plays

The Coward Collection

A series of play anthologies produced by Methuen to mark the centenary of Noël Coward’s birth, introduced by Sheridan Morley

Hay Fever; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; Easy Virtue

Hay Fever; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; Easy Virtue

Private Lives; Bitter-Sweet; The Marquise; Post-Mortem

Private Lives; Bitter-Sweet; The Marquise; Post-Mortem

Design for Living; Cavalcade; Conversation Piece; Tonight at 8.30 (i); Still Life

Design for Living; Cavalcade; Conversation Piece; Tonight at 8.30 (i); Still Life

Blithe Spirit; Present Laughter; This Happy Breed; Tonight at 8.30 (ii)

Blithe Spirit; Present Laughter; This Happy Breed; Tonight at 8.30 (ii)

Relative Values; Look After Lulu; Waiting in the Wings; Suite in Three Keys

Relative Values; Look After Lulu; Waiting in the Wings; Suite in Three Keys

Semi-Monde; Point Valaine; South Sea Bubble; Nude With Violin

Semi-Monde; Point Valaine; South Sea Bubble; Nude With Violin

Quadrille; 'Peace in Our Time'; Tonight at 8.30 (iii)

Quadrille; 'Peace in Our Time'; Tonight at 8.30 (iii)

I'll Leave it to You; The Young Idea; This Was a Man

I'll Leave it to You; The Young Idea; This Was a Man


Lyrics, Verse & Sketches

Collected Reve Sketches and Parodies
selected and introduced by Barry Day with preface by Sheridan Morley (Methuen)

 Noël Coward Collected Verse
edited and introduced by Graham Payn and Martin Tickner (Methuen)

Not Yet the Dodo and Other Verse
by Noël Coward

The Complete Lyrics of Noël Coward
edited by Barry Day

Essential Noël Coward Songbook
introduced by Noël Coward (US Omnibus)

Sir Noël Coward, His Music & Lyrics
edited by Lee Snider

Sir Noël Coward: His Words and Music
by I.M.P.

Noël Coward Gala: His Words and Music - Volume 2
edited by Lee Snider

Noël Coward Rediscovered
by Noël Coward (Warner Brothers Publications)

Noël
by Charles Castle

Short Stories & Plays

The Collected Stories
with a preface by Martin Tickner (Methuen)

Short Stories, Short Plays and Songs
by Noël Coward, introduced and edited by Gilbert Millstein

Noël Coward Autobiographies & Biographies

Present Indicative (1937)

Future Indefinite (1954)

Noël Coward: Autobiography
with introduction by Sheridan Morley
Consisting of Present Indicative, Future Indefinite and the Uncompleted Past Conditional (Methuen World Classics: The Coward Collection)

A Talent to Amuse
Biography of Noël Coward, by Sheridan Morley

Noël Coward
A Bio-Bibliography by Cole Stephen

Noël Coward
A Biography, by Philip Hoare

Noël
by Charles Castle

Noël Coward Diaries & Letters

The Noël Coward Diaries
edited by Graham Payn

The Letters of Noël Coward (Diaries, Letters and Essays)
edited by Barry Day

Middle East Diary
by Noël Coward

Australia Visited
by Noël Coward

Books on Noël Coward's Life & Times

A Last Encore: Words By Noël Coward Pictures From His Life And Times
by John Hadfield

Cowardy Custard, The World of Noël Coward
by John Hadfield

England my England: A Treasury of all things English
by Gerry Hanson

File on Coward
compiled by Jacqui Russell

Firefly, Noël Coward In Jamaica
by Adrian Boot and Chris Salewicz

Genius and Lust: The Creativity and Sexuality of Cole Porter and Noël Coward
by Joe Morella and George Mazzei

Jesting Jeremiah: a Study of Noël Coward's Comic Vision
by C.R Yaravintelimath

Look Back in Pleasure: Noël Coward Reconsidered
edited and introduced by Sheridan Morley and Joel Kaplan

Mad Dogs & Englishmen: A Study Of Noël Coward
by Clarence Ralph Morse

Modern Dramatists: Noël Coward
by Frances Gray

My Life with Noël Coward
by Graham Payn

Noël & Cole: The Sophisticates
by Stephen Citron

Noël Coward & Radclyffe Hall, Kindred Spirits
by Terry Castle

Noël Coward and Company
by Richard Biers

Noël Coward and his Friends
by Cole Lesley

Out In The Midday Sun: The Paintings Of Noël Coward
by Sheridan Morley

Remembered Laughter, the Life of Noël Coward
by Cole Lesley (US)

Silverlands – Growing up at the Actor’s Orphanage
a memoir by Judy Staber

Speaking of Noël Coward
interviews by Alan Farley and edited by Ron Lazar

Star Quality: The Treasures Of Noël Coward
by Barry Day  

The Amazing Mr Noël Coward
by Patrick Braybrooke

The Art of Noël Coward
by Robert Graecen

The Cream Of Noël Coward
selected by Michael Cox, preface by Graham Payn and Sheridan Morley. The Folio Society.

The Essential Noël Coward Compendium
by Barry Day  

The Life of Noël Coward
by Cole Lesley (UK)

The Privilege Of His Company
by William Merchant

The Unknown Noël
by Barry Day

Books on Coward's Theatre & Acting

A Theatrical Feast
by Elizabeth Sharland

Coward the Playwright
by John Lahr

Great Acting
(The transcripts of eight interviews with celebrated actors, including Noël Coward, originally televised on BBC2 in 1965 and 1966), by Hal Burton

Love from Shakespeare to Coward
by Elizabeth Sharland

Noël And Gertie
an entertainment devised by Sheridan Morley

Play the Scene
by Michael Schuman and Eva Mekler

Radio’s Famous Mystery Voice Remembers: ‘And the next object…’
by Norman Hackforth

The British On Broadway
by Elizabeth Sharland

The Private Lives Of Noël And Gertie
by Sheridan Morley

Theatrical Companion to Coward
by Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson

The Scarlet Wench
(novel based around a production of Blithe Spirit),
by Nora Tierney

Books on Noël Coward's Films

Brief Encounter: A Critical Study of the Film
by Richard Dyer (BFI Film Classics Series)

Coward on Film
by Barry Day

Masterworks of The British Cinema: Brief Encounter, The Third Man, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
introduction by John Russell Taylor

Noël Coward Screenplays: In Which We Serve, Brief Encounter, The Astonished Heart
edited by Barry Day

Three British Screen Plays: Brief Encounter, Odd Man Out, Scott of the Antarctic
edited by Roger Manvell and foreword by Frank Launder 

Books of Noël Coward Quotations

Noël Coward in his Own Words
by Barry Day

Noël Coward, a Life in Quotes
by Barry Day

The Quotable Noël Coward
by Sheridan Morley

The Sayings of Noël Coward
by Philip Hoare

The Wicked Wit of Noël Coward
by Dominique Engright

The Wit of Noël Coward
by Richard Dicks