" For ten points, name this gay author of Private Lives and Blithe Spirit.
The delicate singer Clara Hibbert appears alongside the jilted Bunty Mainwaring in a play by this author, which centers on Florence Lancaster's affair with the younger Tom Veryan and her eventual confrontation with her cocaine-addled son Nicky. Another of his plays includes the line, "I'd rather marry a boa constrictor." Besides The Vortex and a play about Elyot and Amanda ditching their honeymoons and getting back together with each other, he wrote of woman on a bicycle who interrupts a dinner with the Bradmans, the medium Madame Arcati. Ruth's jealousy is manifested by the return of Charles Condomine's first wife, Elvira, as a ghost in a play by this writer, named after a line from Shelley's "To a Skylark." For ten points, name this gay author of Private Lives and Blithe Spirit.
The delicate singer Clara Hibbert appears alongside the jilted Bunty Mainwaring in a play by this author, which centers on Florence Lancaster's affair with the younger Tom Veryan and her eventual confrontation with her cocaine-addled son Nicky.
Noel Coward