This first volume in the Coward Collection contains four plays written within a two year period when Coward and the century were still in their 20s. The volume is introduced by Sheridan Morley, Coward's first biographer. ...

Buy Now From Amazon

This first volume in the Coward Collection contains four plays written within a two year period when Coward and the century were still in their 20s. The volume is introduced by Sheridan Morley, Coward's first biographer.

Hay Fever, a comedy of bad manners, concerns a weekend with friends of the Bliss family, who have all been invited independently for a weekend at their country house near Maidenhead. The Vortex was a controversial drama in its time, introducing drug-addiction onto the stage at a time when alcoholism was barely mentioned. Fallen Angels, which is written for two star actresses was described as 'degenerate', 'vile', 'obscene', 'shocking' - the second half of the play is entirely taken up with an alcoholic duologue between the two women. Easy Virtue is an elegant, laconic tribute to a lost world of drawing-room dramas, no other writer went more directly to the jugular of that moralistic, tight-lipped but fundamentally hypocritical 20s society.



Similar Products

Coward Plays: 2: Private Lives; Bitter-Sweet; The Marquise; Post-Mortem (World Classics) (Vol 2)Coward Plays: 3: Design for Living; Cavalcade; Conversation Piece; Tonight at 8.30 9i); Still Life (World Classics) (Vol 3)Coward Plays: 4: Blithe Spirit; Present Laughter; This Happy Breed; Tonight at 8.30 (ii) (World Classics) (Vol 4)Blithe Spirit, Hay Fever, Private Lives: Three PlaysCoward Plays: 7: Quadrille; 'Peace in Our Time'; Tonight at 8.30 (World Classics) (Vol 7)Noel Coward: Collected Plays SIX (v. 6)Four Plays: Come Back Little Sheba; Picnic; Bus Stop; The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (Black Cat Books)Coward Plays: 5: Relative Values; Look After Lulu; Waiting in the Wings; Suite in Three Keys (World Classics) (Vol 5)