The Cocktail Party

Estado del Libro: Bueno Número de Páginas: 181 Año de Publicación: 1979,TAPA BLANDA, LIBRO USADO, RECUERDA QUE UN % DE ESTA VENTA COLABORA CON FUNDACIONES QUE FOMENTAN LA LECTURA EN ZONAS VULNERABLES. The Cocktail Party has a claim to be Eliot’s most successful play, certainly during his lifetime. In the words of Speaight, writing in the week following the play’s debut at the 1949 Edinburgh Festival: ‘The Cocktail Party … is the most advanced and original point yet reached in Mr Eliot’s dramatic writing.’ This was a sentiment echoed across the reviews, which delighted in the subtlety of Eliot’s verse, and the ‘spirit of early Shaw’ which elicited a ‘high-pitched intellectual giggle … frequently drowned by the full-throated roar one expects at a performance of Harvey.’ And yet certain reviewers found the play ‘insufficiently poetic’. Its stripped-down verse, following the method established in The Family Reunion, was variously assessed as a triumph, and as ‘perhaps the weakest poetry that Eliot has yet written.’