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T.S. Eliot's Drama: A Research and Production Sourcebook

by Randy Malamud. 318 pgs.

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Greenwood Press

Place of Publication:

New York

Publication Year:

1992

Subjects:

Eliot, T. S--(Thomas Stearns),--1888-1965--Dramatic Production, Eliot, T. S--(Thomas Stearns),--1888-1965--Dramatic Works, Verse Drama, American--History And Criticism

Table of contents

	Contents
	Preface	ix
	Acknowledgments	xi
	Chronology	1
	Introduction	7

	The Plays: Summaries, Production Histories, Critical Overviews, Textual Notes and Influences, Publishing Histories
	Sweeney Agonistes (1926-27)	31
	The Rock (1934)	53
	Murder in the Cathedral (1935)	67
	The Family Reunion (1939)	89
	The Cocktail Party (1949)	111
	The Confidential Clerk (1953)	137
	The Elder Statesman (1958)	153

	Bibliography

	Primary Sources
	Plays	167
	Eliot's Essays on Drama	167
	Interviews	187
	Manuscripts and Archival Holdings	187

	Secondary Sources
	Bibliographies	189
I.	Reviews and Popular Discussions	191
II.	Scholarly Criticism of a Single Play	206
III.	General Scholarly Criticism	243

	Appendices
	Additional Adaptations	269
	Chronological Bibliography	279
	Productions and Credits	283
	Author Index	291
	General Index	301

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T. S. Eliot's Drama: A Research and Production Sourcebook
Book by Randy Malamud; Greenwood Press, 1992
Subjects:	Eliot, T. S--(Thomas Stearns)--1888-1965--Dramatic Production, Eliot, T. S--(Thomas Stearns)--1888-1965--Dramatic Works, Verse Drama, American--History And Criticism
...0-313-27813-X alk. paper 1. Eliot, T. S. Thomas Stearns , 1888-1965--Dramatic production. 2. Eliot, T. S. Thomas Stearns , 1888-1965--Dramatic works. I. Title. II. Series. PS3509.L43Z715 1992 822.912--dc20 91-46960 British...

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Where the Words Are Valid: T.S. Eliot's Communities of Drama
Book by Randy Malamud; Greenwood Press, 1994
Subjects:	Drama, Eliot, T. S--(Thomas Stearns)--1888-1965--Dramatic Works, Verse Drama--History And Criticism
...0-313-27818-0 alk. paper 1. Eliot, T. S. Thomas Stearns . 1888-1965--Dramatic works. 2. Verse drama--History and criticism. I. Title...publisher gratefully acknowledge permission to consult T. S. Eliots dramatic manuscripts and typescripts, courtesy of the T. S. Eliot Collection, Kings College, Cambridge University...Statesman by T. S. Eliot. Copyright 1959 by Thomas Stearns Eliot, renewed 1987 by Valerie Eliot. Reprinted...the star quality Eliot will nurture in an upcoming production, Sweeney Agonistes: Fragments of an Aristophanic...

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T. S. Eliot: A Symposium for His Seventieth Birthday
Book by Neville Braybrooke; Farrar Straus & Cudahy, 1958
Subjects:	Eliot, T. S--(Thomas Stearns)--1888-1965, Fiction
...at all apply to Eliot and his works. Although, in trying to make...writers, I had the benefit of T. S. E.s example and advice, he was...40s, George Orwell and Dylan Thomas became famous, and a fair number...effort to reconcile himself. Eliot had just finished writing his...important essay on the writing of dramatic poetry to Adam , the little review...produce all five of his fuff-length works for the first time, and the reflections...almost non-existent, and Mr Eliot was tempted by this one, as well...which contain some of his finest dramatic poetry, and was rewarded by hearing...wing through the dark air. O Thomas Archbishop, save us, save us...present at once the two aspects of dramatic and of musical order; and accordingly...embrace his opportunity. Only five works so far: and we all wait eagerly...That has always been so: for Mr Eliot has always made us ask What Next...

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T. S. Eliot: A Collection of Critical Essays
Book by Hugh Kenner; Prentice-Hall, 1962
Subjects:	Eliot, T. S--(Thomas Stearns)--1888-1965, Fiction
...above which brood "the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg," blue and gigantic, their...high. There is no point in asking Mr. Eliot whether this is a source for The Hollow...eyes of Doctor Eckleburg once the two works have entered the same consciousness...That figure of speech is somewhat . . . dramatic, As it was only yesterday that my wife...roots of this exchange are in a comment Eliot wrote on Bradley more than thirty...whole. It is only in social behavior, Eliot concludes, in the conflict and readjustment...

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A Critical Difference: T. S. Eliot and John Middleton Murry in English Literary Criticism, 1919-1928
Book by David Goldie; Clarendon Press, 1998
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...down the offer of a putative salary of 500 per annum: T. S. Eliot London, 1984 , 96. However, Murrys letters cast a slightly...signed M., an abbreviation frequently used by Murry in his dramatic criticism. Concern for the poetic drama was fairly widespread...tradition actually is. In a later work, After Strange Gods , Eliot would describe the tradition in its commonly accepted sense as an unconsciou s transmission of cultural values between generations: of...

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A Craving for Reality: T.S. Eliot Today
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...was born in St. Louis, the last of seven children, in 1888; that he studied at Harvard with people like George Santayana...Christianity?" By 1975, the age was well advanced against T. S. Eliot and everything he stood for. Eliot had once declared himself...Prize in 1948 and by the time he died, at the beginning of 1965, his reputation seemed unassailable. In fact, the seeds...Gordons index. In the original volumes, under "Eliot, Thomas Stearns," one finds the category "Opinions." In the new book...convinced of too little," he warned in "A Dialogue on Dramatic Poetry." "Our literature is a substitute for religion...

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