of the 19th century,moved towards anti-capitalism for his later novel Kipps (1905).A Room with a View (1908)by English writer E M Forster deals with freeing oneself from 19th-century attitudes to relationships,while Forster's A Passage to India (1924)questions the attitude to the British Empire.English writer Somerset Maugham was a cynical observer of human nature(Of Human Bondage,1915). Early 20th-century drama 10 Playwrights questioned society and valuestoo.Irishdramatist George Bernard Shaw attacked class prejudice in Pygmalion (1913),and John Galsworthy's plays Strife(1901)and Justice (1910),arereputed to havecaused the government to end solitary confinement in prisons.Irish dramatist Sean O'Casey dramatized the Irish Easter Rising of 1916 in The Plough and the Stars, 1926),which provoked riots at its first performance.English dramatist Noel Coward returned to social satires,which were popular in the 18th century (Hay Fever,1925;Private Lives, 1930). 10 Early 20th-century poetry Poetry,too,was at a watershed.The late 19th century had produced contrasting works that shared the commontheme oflost of the 19th century, moved towards anti-capitalism for his later novel Kipps (1905). A Room with a View (1908) by English writer E M Forster deals with freeing oneself from 19th-century attitudes to relationships, while Forster's A Passage to India (1924) questions the attitude to the British Empire. English writer Somerset Maugham was a cynical observer of human nature (Of Human Bondage, 1915). Early 20th-century drama Playwrights questioned society and values too. Irish dramatist George Bernard Shaw attacked class prejudice in Pygmalion (1913), and John Galsworthy's plays Strife (1901) and Justice (1910), are reputed to have caused the government to end solitary confinement in prisons. Irish dramatist Seán O'Casey dramatized the Irish Easter Rising of 1916 in The Plough and the Stars, 1926), which provoked riots at its first performance. English dramatist Noël Coward returned to social satires, which were popular in the 18th century (Hay Fever, 1925; Private Lives, 1930). Early 20th-century poetry Poetry, too, was at a watershed. The late 19th century had produced contrasting works that shared the common theme of lost 10’ 10’