First American edition of The Cocktail Party, T. S. Eliot's Tony Award-winning play.
Written by T. S. Eliot. First American edition, 1950. Harcourt, Brace and Company.
T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965) was a poet, playwright, and publisher, and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1948 "as one of the most daring innovators of 20th C. poetry". The Cocktail Party was first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1949, and the New York production won the Tony Award for best play in 1950.
Nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1948/eliot-bio.html
Front flap:
"The Cocktail Party is Mr. Eliot's first play since The Family Reunion (1939), and his first verse since Four Quartets (1943). The London drawing-room of Wedward and Lavinia Chamberlayne, whose marriage is breaking up, is the setting of all but one scene in the play. Act Two takes place in the consulting room of a psychiatrist.
Act I. Scene 1.
"The drawing room of the Chamberlayne's London flat. Early evening. Edward Chamberlayne, Julia Shuttlethwaite, Celia Coplestone, Peter Quilpe, Alexander MacColgie Gibbs, and an Unidentified Guest.
Alex
"You've missed the point completely, Julia:
There were no tigers. That was the point.
Julia
"Then what we you doing, up in a tree:
You and the Maharaja?
Alex
"My dear Julia!
It's perfectly hopeless. You haven't been listening.
Peter
"You'll have to tell us all over again, Alex.
Alex
"I never tell the same story twice."
Reviews
"A real contribution to dramatic literature and to the contemporary theatre. I was both moved by what Eliot has to say and the skill with which he says it." - New York Times
"The Cocktail Part is a masterpiece of the modern stage. ...extraordinarily moving and inspiring." NY Daily News
"...one of the two or three finest plays of the post-war English speaking stage." NY Post
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