Hay Fever | Essays and Criticism
- Coward's Comedic Touch
In this essay, Kreger discusses how Coward’s comedic touch in Hay Fever reveals the artifice of both social and theatrical conventions, putting a uniquely humorous spin on the anxiety over loss of meaning expressed so seriously by many of his modernist contemporaries.
- Hay Fever: Overview and History
In the following essay, Connolly provides an overview and brief history of Coward’s play.
- Country Pleasures
In this excerpt, Gill provides a brief history of Coward’s inspiration for writing Hay Fever in addition to offering a positive appraisal of a 1985 revival of the play at the Music Box theatre.
- Review of Hay Fever
In this review, Clurman offers the opinion that Coward’s play is a distinctly British work that holds little appeal for American audiences.
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