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The Family Reunion (1939)

by T. S. Eliot

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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).… (more)
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T.S. Eliot's haunting verse play, set in a country house in the north of England, was performed at the Westminster Theatre in London in March 1939.
  Roger_Scoppie | Apr 3, 2013 |
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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).

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