Noël Coward

Noël Coward combines a fresh appraisal of major plays by one of the twentieth century’s most popular dramatists, with an account of critical and theatrical responses to his life and work.

Russell Jackson is Emeritus Professor of Drama at the University of Birmingham, UK. His publications include The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on film (2007), Shakespeare Films in the Making (2007), Theatres on Film: How the Cinema Imagines the Stage (2013), Shakespeare and the English-speaking Cinema (2014), Shakespeare in the Theatre: Trevor Nunn (2018), The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Screen (2020), and Noël Coward: The Playwright’s Craft in a Changing Theatre (2022).