Dec 29, 2009

Hay Fever | Topics for Further Study

Several critics have commented upon the strong connections between Hay Fever and Edward Albee’s 1962 play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Compare and contrast these two works, considering how each playwright takes a similar situation and setting and develops it to very different effect.

Both Coward as an individual and the plays he wrote are often associated with 1920s ‘‘Bohemian’’ culture. Research the meaning and evolution of the term ‘‘Bohemian’’ in early twentiethcentury western culture. Once you have a good sense of what the term...