From "the master" of sophisticated, daring comedy; actor, playwright, songwriter, composer, director, whose light, sharp wit shaped, seduced, (at times) shocked, and enchanted the English and American stage for half a century--his thoughts, lyrics, essays, commentary, asides on everything having to do with the theatre and his dazzling life in it.The book Noel Coward wanted, promised, threatened to write--and never did . . .His essays, interviews, diary entries, lyrics, verse,