This first volume in the Coward Collection contains four plays written within a two year period when Cowardand the century were still in their 20s. The volume is introduced by Sheridan Morley;Cowards first biographer. Hay Fever; a comedy of badmanners; concerns a weekend with friends of the Bliss family; who haveall been invited independently for a weekend at their country housenear Maidenhead. The Vortexwas a controversial drama in its time; introducing drug-addiction ontothe stage at a time when alcoholism was barely mentioned. Fallen Angels; which is written for two star actresseswas described as degenerate; vile; obscene; shocking - thesecond half of the play is entirely taken up with an alcoholic duologuebetween the two women. Easy Virtue is an elegant; laconic tribute to alost world of drawing-room dramas; no other writer went more directlyto the jugular of that moralistic; tight-lipped but fundamentallyhypocritical 20s society. "He is simply a phenomenon; and one that is unlikely to occur everagain in theatre history" Terence Rattigan
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