Private Lives

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Private Lives is a 1930 comedy of manners by Noël Coward. It focuses on a divorced couple who discover that they are honeymooning with their new spouses in the same hotel. Despite a perpetually stormy relationship, they realise that they still have feelings for each other.

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Tropes used in Private Lives include:

• Betty and Veronica - Sybol and Amanda, respectively, to Elyot. Also, Victor and Elyot to Amanda.
• Dating Do-Si-Do - the point of the play
• Genteel Interbellum Setting - like most of Coward's plays
• The Missus and the Ex
• Slap Slap Kiss - Amanda and Elyot's relationship, and late Sybol and Victor's.