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  • T.S. Eliot
    In T.S. Eliot: Later poetry and plays of T.S. Eliot

    …The Cocktail Party in 1949, The Confidential Clerk in 1953, and The Elder Statesman in 1958. These plays are comedies in which the plots are derived from Greek drama. In them Eliot accepted current theatrical conventions at their most conventional, subduing his style to a conversational level and eschewing the…

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