Theatre Review: 'Blithe Spirit' at The National Theatre
It was Percy Bysshe Shelley who wrote a poem called “To a Skylark” which began, “Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert. That from heaven or near it. Pourest thy full heart. In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.” English playwright Noël Coward used this poem as inspiration for the title of a play about ghosts called, Blithe Spirit, now […]