The Cocktail Party: Verse Drama

"Obviously something more than a successful play, it is the practical demonstration of a patently conceived theory of dramatic form, and as such of high historical interest."-Times Literary Supplement

"Eliot has attempted here something very daring and well worth doing. He has taken the ordinary West End drawing room comedy convention - understatement, upper-class accents and all - and used it as a vehicle for utterly serious ideas." -The Observer

"An authentic modern masterpiece" (New York P...