The theme of “Love” in Somerset Maugham's work “Theater”

Abstract

            Somerset Maugham is one of those writers, who in his not short life (more than 90 years) made a huge contribution to the history of world literature. He wrote an infinite number of novels and plays. But he didn’t write poetry, journalism, literary criticism and diaries. His plays were shown in the best London theaters and there were more than a hundred performances and almost every play received excellent press. In other words, he was one of the most prominent English writers in various fields by the beginning of the First World War. Actually, Maugham was better known as a playwright than a novelist. He is a very hardworking person, especially S. Maugham liked to work in the morning [1, p.161].