T. S. Eliot is best known today as a poet, even though his production in that area was relatively meager. he wrote less than four thousand lines of poetry, but volumes of groundbreaking literary criticism and seven plays Today, Murder in the Cathedral, his 1935 drama about the murder of the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1170, is probably his best-known play and the one most often performed. During his lifetime, though, Eliot achieved the most popular success with The Cocktail Party. The play opened at the prestigious Edinburgh Festival in 1949, With Alec Guiness in the role of Sir Henry Harcourt-Reilly. In America, it opened on Broadway in January 1950 and ran for 325 performances, taking in approximately one million dollars. It won the New York Drama Critics' Award for 1950.
Both the London and New.....
This is a free excerpt of 135 words. This section contains 727 words. This
study guide contains 18,629 words (approx. 62 pages at 300
words per page).
Read the rest of this Literature Guide with our The Cocktail Party Access Pass.
