THE FAMILY REUNION

T.S.Eliot THE FAMILY REUNION “What poets and playwrights have been fumbling at in their desire to put poetry into drama and drama into poetry has been here realized. It is this kind of play designed first for the theatre and then expressed in terms of clear, dramatic poetry, that has the best chance of survival...this is the finest verse play since the Elizabethans.” –The New York Times “A better play than ‘Murder in the Cathedral’...This time the subordinate characters are real persons, fuller, more differentiated, more sympathetic; and the ideas behind the play are fused into the action and the characters; it is difficult (and this is as it should be) to divorce the theme or the moral from the play itself.” – Louis MacNeice, New Republic “The writing is as clear as crystal...an amazing piece of work.” – Louise Bogan, The New Yorker “Mr. Eliot has re-created a Greek tragedy in an English country house...the crowding ideas behind the rhythmic power of the verse soon raise it to great drama.” – Catholic World

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