![]() During the 1920s and 1930s Coward developed an iconography of androgyny– a celebrated photo with Gertrude Lawrence in Private Lives poses them as near-reflections of fashionable sheen, with otter-slim shoulders and cigarette holders cocked for combat.” -David Jays, The New Statesman ![]() Between the wars, Cecil Beaton wrote, “all sorts of men suddenly wanted to look like Noel Coward–sleek and satiny, clipped and well groomed, with a cigarette, a telephone, or a cocktail at hand”. Terry Castle has written a deliriously fizzy critical study of Coward and Radclyffe Hall, demonstrating how their discreetly coded personae met in a shared territory of slicked-back hair, severe evening dress and teasing dressing gowns. ![]() “Coward’s plays also create an erotic ideal of androgyny. A literary exploration of the friendship between Noel Coward and Radclyffe Hall, this book sheds light on the relationship between gay men and lesbian women in England, France, and America in the first half of the 20th century. ![]()
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