Brown, John Mason (continued)

and genteel values, 42–43, 45, 140n66

relationship with George Pierce Baker, 47, 140n69

training as critic, 46–47, 52

Bühnenkünstler (theatre artist), 98, 147n150

Burgtheater, 8, 83–86, 98, 101–104, 106, 109, 145n128, 147n149, 147n158

Canby, Henry Seidel (American critic and first editor of The Saturday Review), 57, 142n89

and genteel bourgeois values, 142n89

Carlyle, Thomas, 17–18

Clark, Barrett (American critic), 24, 137n53

Cole, Lester (American screenwriter), 25, 27–28, 33

Companion of Honour, 3–4

as “British” cultural emblem, 4

collaborationists, 95, 130

as actors, 95

Cyril Connolly depicted as one, 130

Communist Party (U.S.A), 26–28

Connolly, Cyril, 130, 148n164

Cousins, Norman (American journalist and editor), 57, 60

Coward, Noël, ix–x, 6–7, 57, 60, 69, 73, 76–77, 111–132, 134n15, 148n163, 149n184, 149n186, 149n189, 150n190

censored on American television, 129

epigrams, relative lack of in his plays, 116–117, 122

on “the essence of good of comedy writing,”, 117

forgets his lower class characters later in career, 131

“laugh lines,”, 116–117

method of play construction, 117–118

as “national institution,”, 130

opposes appeasement, 131

persona and image of, 111, 114–115, 126, 130, 132

plays, 111–117, 128, 130–132

Design for Living, 116, 125–127, 130, 149nn184–185

Hay Fever, 116, 120–122, 127

Hands Across the Sea, 115, 117–120, 127

Private Lives, 6, 116–117, 120, 123–127, 131, 134n15, 148n163

Shadow Play, 113

Tonight at 8:30, 114–115, 118–119

plotlessness of plays, 115, 125