Somerset Maugham

Somerset Maugham's plays are seldom revived, but when one is, you can bet on it being "The Constant Wife," a marital comedy of manners. --Damien Jaques, Boulevard Ensemble opening season with ’Misanthrope’, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, August 10, 2008


Recommended reading:
by Somerset Maugham at Reading Rat


Criticism (articles, essays, reviews):

Author's full life satisfies as book, review by Frank Wilson of Somerset Maugham: A Life, by Jeffrey Meyers, and The Painted Veil, by Somerset Maugham, Philadelphia Inquirer, March 21, 2004

The troubled popularity of Somerset Maugham, review by Merle Rubin of Somerset Maugham, by Jeffrey Meyers, Christian Science Monitor, February 17, 2004

How good was Maugham? by Anthony Daniels, The New Criterion, February 2004