The Family Reunion
play by Eliot
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discussed in biography
- In T.S. Eliot: Murder in the Cathedral, The Cocktail Party, and other plays
The Family Reunion (1939) and Murder in the Cathedral are Christian tragedies—the former a tragedy of revenge, the latter of the sin of pride. Murder in the Cathedral is a modern miracle play on the martyrdom of Thomas Becket. The most striking feature of this,
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modeled after Oresteia
- In tragedy: Aeschylus: the first great tragedian
Eliot, in The Family Reunion (1939), and Jean-Paul Sartre, in The Flies (1943), found modern relevance in its archetypal characters, situations, and themes, and in the 21st century the Oresteia is still considered one of the greatest spiritual works written.
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