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. "He is simply a phenomenon, and one that is unlikely to occur everagain in theatre history" Terence Rattigan.
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.
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.
The Vortexwas a controversial drama in its time, introducing drug-addiction ontothe stage at a time when alcoholism was barely mentioned.
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 volume is introduced by Sheridan Morley, Coward\'s first biographer.
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
