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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Dalya Alberge

Revealed: Noël Coward’s unseen plays aimed to deal with homosexuality

Noël Coward in 1953.
Noël Coward in 1953. Photograph: Haywood Magee/Getty Images

Noël Coward worked on two plays that openly featured same-sex relationships at a time when homosexuality was still illegal in England, and strict censorship laws governed theatres, new research reveals.

The master playwright was planning to write about a homosexual triangle in one play and to confront homophobic prejudice in another, according to an unpublished letter of 1960 and an unknown scene for an unfinished 1967 drama.

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