The Family Reunion: A Verse Play with a Contemporary Setting
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1939. Early printing. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. Item #2298301
Jacket edges rubbed with a few small chips. Ink name on front free endpaper.
129 pp. "The Family Reunion is a play by T. S. Eliot. Written mostly in blank verse (though not iambic pentameter), it incorporates elements from Greek drama and mid-twentieth-century detective plays to portray the hero's journey from guilt to redemption. The play was unsuccessful when first presented in 1939, and was later regarded as unsatisfactory by its author, but has been successfully revived since the 1940s. Some critics have thought aspects of the tormented hero reflect Eliot's own difficulties with his estrangement from his first wife."
Price: $15.00