The Cocktail Party

The Cocktail Party

The Cocktail Party is a play by T. S. Eliot. Elements of the play are based on Alcestis, by the Ancient Greek playwright Euripides. The play was the most popular of Eliot's seven plays in his lifetime, although his 1935 play, Murder in the Cathedral, is better remembered today. The Cocktail Party was first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1949. In 1950 the play had successful runs in London and New York theaters It focuses on a troubled married couple who, through the intervention of a mysterious stranger, settle their problems and move on with their lives. The play starts out seeming...
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Author:T. S. Eliot
Number of editions:4

Author of The Cocktail Party

T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965
Birthplace:St. Louis, Missouri

Thomas Stearns Eliot OM was a publisher, playwright, literary and social critic and "arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century." Although he was born an American, he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39. The...
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Additional works by T. S. Eliot
BookCopyright DateGenre
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Christianity And Culture 1940
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Ash Wednesday
The Waste Land
Four Quartets Poetry
The Hollow Men
Burnt Norton
The Dry Salvages
Collected Poems, 1909-1962 Poetry
The Family Reunion
Murder in the Cathedral
cultivation of Christmas trees
Funcion De La Poesia Y Funcion De La Critica
The idea of a literary review
Prufrock And Other Observations
Four modern verse plays
After strange gods
Eliot
varieties of metaphysical poetry
music of poetry
Inventions of the March Hare
Points of view
T. S. Eliot
Eeldrop and Appleplex
For Lancelot Andrewes
idea de una sociedad cristiana
Voices and Visions
Poèms, 1910-1930
Andrew Marvell
Reading Poems and Choruses
note on the verse of John Milton
Poems, 1909-1925
frontiers of criticism
Marina
Poems written in early youth
Animula
Poemas
casebook on Gerontion
Poetry by T.S Eliot
value and use of cathedrals in England to-day
Saggi elisabettiani
On poetry
Poe sie
The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot's Contemporary Prose
Dramen
Estilos Griegos I - Kavafis K . P. Eliot
Inventos de la liebre de marzo, poemas 1909-1917
Jarīmat qatl fī al-kātidrāʼīyah
Shakespeare and the stoicism of Seneca
Eliot Euskaraz
Three critical essays on modern English poetry
Essays
Assassinio nella cattedrale
Meurtre dans la cathédrale
three voices of poetry
Milton
aims of poetic drama
Arḍ al-yabạb
familientag
Geoffrey Faber, 1889-1961
Mr. Mistoffelees
rock
Homage to John Dryden
Poems and Choruses
bosco sacro
Cats
Cuatro Cuartetos/ Four Quartets
Japanese Poetry
Phoniko stēn ekklēsia
Triumphal march
erēmē chōra
Essays on Elizabethan drama
Selected prose of T. S. Eliot
song for Simeon
undergraduate poems of T.S. Eliot, published while he was at college in the Harvard advocate, 40 Bow Street, Cambridge 38, Massachusetts Poetry
American literature and the American language
elder statesman
T.S. Eliot, tradotto da Eugenio Montale con un saggio introduttivo
use of poetry and the use of criticism
Ezra Pound, his metric and poetry
poetas metafísicos y otros ensayos sobre teatro y religión
Charles Whibley
What is a classic?
Quattro quartetti
George Herbert
John Dryden, the poet, the dramatist, the critic
Reunion by destruction
rock, a pageant play written for performance at Sadler's Wells Theatre, 28 May-9 June, 1934, on behalf of the Forty-five Churches Fund of the Diocese of London
Poetry in Prose
Asesinato en la catedral
Journey of the magi
Tierra baldía
terra desolata
Dante
Coleccion Premios Nobel T. S. Eliot L Tierra Baldia
Religious drama: mediaeval and modern
Film of Murder in the Cathedral
Poèmes 1910-1930
Ara vus prec
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