Lots of light comedy. Most of these one-act plays have prefaces by the author, which can be interesting. "Augustus Does His Bit" was a bit more serious, making fun of a certain section of the upper class who were both incompetent and insisted that leading was their duty, which made for a terrible leadership. British used to mock the idea of the Ottomans ("the old man of Europe") being held up past their natural end, but this play does that to the British.

(Without American help WWI would have ended the British Empire.) ( )