The Family Reunion: Verse Drama

by T. S. Eliot

Overview

A modern verse play dealing with the problem of man’s guilt and his need for expiation through his acceptance of responsibility for the sin of humanity. “What poets and playwrights have been fumbling at in their desire to put poetry into drama and drama into poetry has here been realized.... This is the finest verse play since the Elizabethans” (New York Times).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780156301572
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	03/18/1964
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	132
Sales rank:	311,083
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He moved to England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.

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CHAPTER 1

PART I

The Drawing Room, After Tea. An Afternoon in Late March

Scene I

Amy, Ivy, Violet, Agatha, Gerald,

(Continues…)

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