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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Private Lives
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(1930) Noel *Coward's most successful comedy. Two glamorous and brilliant characters, Elyot and Amanda, are divorced from each other; but honeymooning in their new marriages, they find that they have adjacent balconies. The old attraction reasserts itself, and they depart together for Paris. Here they rapidly sink into violent quarrels, in which they are discovered by their new partners. After further complications Elyot and Amanda convince themselves that such aggression must be a sign of love, so they sneak off together once again. They were played in the first production by Coward himself and Gertrude *Lawrence.
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