Private Lives (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Noel Coward
- First Published: 1930
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Comedy of manners
- Time of Work: 1930
- Setting: France
- Principal Characters: Sibyl Chase, Elyot Chase, Amanda Prynne, Victor Prynne
- Genres: Drama, Comedy, Comedy of manners, Boulevard drama
- Subjects: Values, France or French people, Love or romance, Marriage, 1920’s, 1930’s, Individuality, England or English people, Upper classes, Adultery, Conformity
- Locales: Paris, France
The Story:
Sibyl Chase loved being married. She was as much in love with the idea of being a bride as she was with her husband Elyot, perhaps more so. On the first night of their honeymoon, Sibyl went into raptures over Elyot, but she did not forget, or let him forget, that she knew he had loved his first wife Amanda madly. She was certain that the breakup of that marriage had been Amanda’s fault and that she had been a mean-tempered and probably a wanton woman. When Sibyl told him that she knew how to handle a husband, how to make him happy, Elyot feared that she meant she...
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