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The Family Reunion

play by Eliot

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discussed in biography

In T.S. Eliot: Later poetry and plays of T.S. Eliot
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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