The Family Reunion

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The Family Reunion is a play by Nobel Prize winning poet T. S. Eliot.

Contents 1 Performances 1.1 First performance 1.2 Other performances 2 Reception and criticism 2.1 Eliot's own criticism 3 References 4 Further reading 5 External links

[edit] Performances

[edit] First performance

The play was first performed in March 1939 at the Westminister Theatre, London. (Gallup, p.64)

[edit] Other performances

Other performances of the play include:

• The Mercury Theatre, London. (November 1946) (Gallup, p.64)
• The Phoenix Theatre, London (June 1956) (Gallup, p.64)

[edit] Reception and criticism

[edit] Eliot's own criticism

In 1951, in the first Theodore Spencer Memorial Lecture at Harvard University Eliot criticized his own plays in the second half of the lecture, explicitly the plays Murder in the Cathedral, The Family Reunion, and The Cocktail Party. The lecture was published as Poetry and Drama and later included in Eliot's 1957 collection On Poetry and Poets.

[edit] References

• Gallup, Donald. T.S. Eliot: A Bibliography (A Revised and Extended Edition) Harcourt Brace & World (1969)

[edit] Further reading

• T. S. Eliot, The Complete Poems and Plays
• Grover Smith, T.S. Eliot's Poetry and Plays: A Study in Sources and Meaning
• E. Martin Browne, The Making of T.S. Eliot's Plays.

[edit] External links

• Works by T. S. Eliot at Project Gutenberg
• The T.S. Eliot Page