By the end of the 1920s, Noël Coward was enjoying exceptional success and popularity, with four different plays running in London. At the same time, productions of Bernard Shaw’s newest plays (Heartbreak HouseShaw, Bernardplays, Back to MethuselahShaw, Bernardplays, and Saint JoanShaw, Bernardplays in particular) and his Nobel in 1925 were helping to polish a reputation tarnished by his Common Sense About the War.