{"product_id":"9780413460608","title":"Coward Plays: 1: Hay Fever; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; Easy Virtue","description":"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,\u003cbr\u003eCoward's first biographer. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHay Fever\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003ci\u003e The Vortex\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ewas a controversial drama in its time, introducing drug-addiction onto the stage at a time when alcoholism was barely mentioned. \u003ci\u003eFallen Angels\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003ci\u003eEasy Virtue\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"He is simply a phenomenon, and one that is unlikely to occur ever again in theatre history\" Terence Rattigan","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42738758910013,"sku":"9780413460608","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780413460608_p0.jpg?v=1771591425","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9780413460608","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}