Broadway Play Noel Coward This Was a Man 1926 1st US DJ VG

Description: Broadway Play Noel Coward This Was a Man, A Comedy in Three Acts 1926 1st US DJ VG First US edition with 1926 on title page. First printing with "First Edition" on copyright page. Publisher: New York Harper & Brothers 1926. 5.5" x 8" Octavio [viii] 1-244 [iv Blank]. Original light purple cloth. Front cover lettered in black over purple. Spine lettered in black and white over light purple box. Top page edge stained purple. Bottom and fore page edges untrimmed. Unclipped dust jacket with a $2.00 price. Harper's Modern Plays. Book Condition: Very Good+ Spine edges are chipped. Pastedowns and endpaers are very lightly browned. Binding is tight. Text is clean.Dust Jacket Condition: Good Spine ends are chipped. Front cover has a closed tear starting from spine. Edward Churt is a successful painter. His wife Carol has a 'vivid personality composed of a minimum of intellect and a maximum of sex'. Increasingly aware of her infidelity, Edward defends himself with a veneer of sophisticated insouciance. But his best friend and army comrade is determined to avenge him... This Was A Man explores some of Coward's lifelong themes of social mores, jealousy and the futility of a life with no moral compass. Can good manners emasculate us? What happens when we repress our inner caveman? Is it more courageous to look away or to face our demons and fight? What, indeed, does it mean to be a man? Banned by the Lord Chamberlain in 1926 for its facetious and irreverent treatment of adultery, This Was A Man was not performed professionally in the UK until its debut at the Finborough Theatre in 2014.

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