The main theme of the paper is that the play “Hay Fever” is that it is the funniest play, as I have heard by many people and friends. Many theatrical critics over the years have regarded Hay Fever as Noel Coward's funniest play. It is setting in the English country home of the Bliss family, in the mid-1920s (Myer & Grosvenor, 1991). The Bliss family is blatantly unconventional and darn proud of it. Mother Judith, the catalyst for much of the unconventionality, is a retired dramatic actress; husband David is a successful but temperamental writer; and ...