BIBLIOGRAPHY
This Bibliography supplies the sources of quotations used or references given in the narratives and Index. All significant sources and quotations are acknowledged by a bold letter code in square brackets, e.g. [NCSB]. "Significant" in this context means a good part of a sentence or more.
Works by Noël Coward |
[NCA] |
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Noël Coward, Autobiography (complete, consisting of Present Indicative, Future Indefinite and Past Conditional) (Methuen, 1986) |
[NCCS] |
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Noël Coward - the Complete Stories (Methuen, 1985) |
[NCD] |
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The Noël Coward Diaries (Ed.Payn & Morley /Weidenfeld & Nicolson,1982) |
[NCL] |
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The Lyrics of Noël Coward (Heinemann, 1965) [and see [BD] below] |
[NCMED] |
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Noël Coward, Middle East Diary (Heinemann, 1944) |
[NCSB] |
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Noël Coward Song Book (Michael Joseph, 1954 & reprints) |
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[further details of this publication in Appendix 2a: No.3] |
[NCSL] |
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Collected Sketches and Lyrics (Hutchinson & Co., 1932) |
[NCCV] |
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Noël Coward - Collected Verse (Methuen, 1984) |
Works about Noël Coward by others |
[BD] |
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Noël Coward - The Complete Lyrics, (Edited and anotated by Barry Day, Methuen, London, 1998) |
[BG] |
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Let's Face the Music - The Golden Age of Popular Song [Chapter 4] (Benny Green / Pavilion Books Ltd. ,1989) |
[CL] |
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The Life of Noël Coward ['Remembered Laughter' in US] (Cole Lesley/ Jonathan Cape, 1976) |
[CP] |
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A Talent to Compose (Christopher Palmer/ 'Performing Right' No.60, October 1973) (Performing Right Society Ltd.) |
[CS&AB] |
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Firefly - Noël Coward in Jamaica (Chris Salewicz and Adrian BootVictor Gollancz, 1999)/ |
[DV] |
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The Potency of Cheap Music (Dominic Vlasto, in Look Back inPleasure - Noël Coward Remembered, ed. Kaplan/University of Birmingham/Methuen, 2000) |
[GP] |
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My Life With Noël Coward (Graham Payn, with Barry Day/Applause Books,1994) |
[JL] |
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Coward (John Lahr / Methuen, 1982) |
[M&M] |
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Theatrical Companion to Coward (Raymond Mander & Joe Mitchenson/ Rockliff Publishing Corp., 1957) New Updated Edition: Eds. Day & Morley/Oberon Books London, 2000) |
[NC&F] |
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Noël Coward and His Friends (Lesley, Payn, Morley/Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979) |
[PB] |
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The Amazing Mr. Coward (Patrick Braybrooke FRSL/ Denis Archer, 1933) |
[PH] |
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Noël Coward - a Biography (Philip Hoare/ Sinclair-Stevenson, 1995) |
[RK] |
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Noël Coward (Robert F. Kiernan/Ungar, New York, 1986) |
[SCi] |
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Noël & Cole - the sophisticates (Stephen Citron/Sinclair Stevenson,1992) |
[SCo] |
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Noël Coward - a Bio-Bibliography (Stephen Cole/Greenwood |
[SM1] |
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A Talent to Amuse [Biography] (Sheridan Morley/Little, Brown & Press, 1993) Co, Boston, 1985) |
[VE] |
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Sir Noël - the Man and his Music (Vivian Ellis/ 'Performing Right'No.60, October 1973) (Performing Right Society Ltd.) |
SIGNIFICANT OTHERS - not specifically about Coward |
[BL] |
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Every Other Inch a Lady (autobiography) (Beatrice Lillee with John Philip, written with James Brough / W.H.Allen, 1973) |
[BN1] |
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All I Could Never Be (Beverley Nichols/Jonathan Cape,1949) |
[BN2] |
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The Sweet and Twenties (Beverley Nichols/ Weidenfeld and Nicolson,1958) |
[CBC] |
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Cock-A-Doodle-Do (Charles B. Cochran/J.M.Dent, London,1941) |
[EL] |
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Boo, to My Friends (Evelyn Laye/Hurst & Blackett,London, 1958) |
[FMC] |
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Orchestration for the Theatre (Francis M. Collinson/ John Lane The Bodley Head, 1941) |
[GL] |
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A Star Danced (Gertrude Lawrence/W.H. Allen, 1945) |
[JA] |
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Wandering Abroad (Jeffrey Amherst / Secker & Warburg, 1976) |
[JD] |
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Les Folies du Music-Hall (Jacques Damase / Editions 'Spectacles', Paris, 1960; trans. 1962 Anthony Blond Ltd., with foreword by Noël Coward) |
[JG] |
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Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure (Autoiography)(Macmillan, London, 1976) |
[JH1] |
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The Little Woman's Always Right (Jack Hulbert / W.H.Allen, 1975) |
[JH2] |
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Cochran (James Harding/ Methuen, 1988) |
[JM] |
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Over My Shoulder (Jessie Matthews / W.H. Allen, 1974) |
[ME] |
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Those Dancing Years (Mary Ellis / John Murray, 1982) |
[MG] |
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Laughing Through Life (Maisie Gay / Hurst & Blackett,1931) |
[MM] |
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My Heart Belongs (Mary Martin / W.H.Allen, 1977) |
[NH] |
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And the Next Object (Norman Hackforth / Angus & Robertson, 1975) |
[PK] |
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The Time of My Life (Pat Kirkwood/Robert Hale Ltd. 1999) |
[PN] |
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Ivor Novello - Man of the Theatre (Peter Noble, with foreword by Noël Coward/Falcon Press, 1951) |
[RH] |
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Binkie Beaumont - Eminence Grise of the West End Theatre(Richard Huggett/Hodder & Stoughton,1989) |
[RR] |
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Musical Stages (autobiography) (Richard Rodgers /W.H.Allen, London, 1976) |
[SH] |
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'Cockie' (Sam Heppner / Leslie Frewin, 1969) |
[SM2] |
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Gertrude Lawrence (Sheridan Morley / Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1981) |
Other Works Consulted (no specific references made) |
The British Musical Theatre[Vol.II] (Kurt Ganzl/MacMillan, 1986)
The Complete Entertainment Discography (1897-1942) (2nd Edn) (Brian Rust/Da Capo Press, New York, 1989)
Directory of Popular Music 1900-1965 (LeslieLowe/Peterson,1975)
The Gay Twenties (J.C.Trewin/Mander and Mitchenson, with foreword by Noël Coward/Macdonald, 1958)
Ivor Novello (James Harding/W.H.Allen, 1987)
London Musical Shows on Record (R.Seeley & R.Bunnett/ General Gramophone Publications Ltd., 1989)
Musical Comedy (Mander and Mitchenson, with foreword by Noël
Coward/Peter Davies, 1969)
Operetta (Richard Taubner/Victor Gollancz, 1984)
Popular Music of the Twenties (Ronald Pearsall/ Rowman & Littlefield, N.J., 1976)
Review of Revues (Ed. C.B.Cochran/ Jonathan Cape, 1930)
Revue (Mander and Mitchenson, with forword by Noël Coward/PeterDavies, 1971)
The Turbulent Thirties (J.C.Trewin/Mander and Mitchenson/ Macdonald, 1960) |
