Coward Plays: 8

The eighth volume in the Coward Collection includes I'll

Leave It To You and The Young Idea, the first of Coward's plays ever to

be produced. These were, as he said, "enthusiastically acclaimed by the

critics and ran five weeks and eight weeks respectively. In both of

them I appeared with the utmost determination."







This Was a Man, a

slightly later play, was written in 1926, after the successes which

made his name. It was originally banned by the Lord Chamberlain "for

facetious adultery".