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The elder statesman : a play
Title
The elder statesman : a play / by T.S. Eliot.
Publication
New York : Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, [1959]
Manufacture
New York : Manufactured by American Book-Stratford Press, Inc.
Copyright Notice Date
©1959
Physical Description
134 pages ; 22 cm
Local Notes
BEIN Gallup Eliot A70b: Dust jacket. Accompanied by publisher'sIn ms. on back paste-down endpaper: DCG 568. compliments card. From the Donald C. Gallup Collection of T.S. Eliot.
BEIN Tanselle Z40 0119: "First printing, 1959." Dust jacket. Monogram bookplate: GTT [G. Thomas Tanselle]
Summary
Written in free verse, this drawing room drama by the poet and author of The Cocktail Party and Murder In The Cathedral is a revealing character study of one man who has loved not wisely but perhaps too well. Lord Claverton, celebrated and respected in society, exerts considerable influence especially over his devoted daughter Monica which angers her beau, Charles. Forced by illness into early retirement, Lord Claverton receives two unexpected visitors -- a now dissolute former student and an ex-lover, a wealthy granddame, both of who were led astray in youth by Claverton himself. As these ghosts of his past converge, Claverton is led to a spiritual renewal and dies knowing his daughter will lead a more illuminated life with her husband-to-be.
Other formats
Online version: Eliot, T.S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965. Elder statesman. New York : Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, ©1959
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Gallup, D.C. Eliot (rev. ed.), A70b
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Drama
Verse drama
Drama.
Verse drama.
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Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy, publisher.
American Book-Stratford Press, printer.
United States New York (State) New York.
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