Treats Eliot's seven plays as central to the understanding of the rest of his work, and points out numerous literary and personal sources of Eliot's modernist sensibility.
Sweeney Agonistes: "I Gotta Use Words"
The Rock: "There Is No Life That Is Not in Community"
Murder in the Cathedral: "Our Eyes Are Compelled to Witness"
The Family Reunion: "The Particular Has No Language"
The Cocktail Party: "Where the Words Are Valid"
The Confidential Clerk: "Mind Control Is a Different Matter"
The Elder Statesman: "The Words Mean What They Say"
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RANDY MALAMUD is Assistant Professor of English at Georgia State University, where he teaches Modern Literature. He is the author of The Language of Modernism (1989) and T.S. Eliot's Drama: A Research and Production Sourcebook (Greenwood, 1992), as well as articles on Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and other modern figures. He is currently working on an interdisciplinary study of modernism in literature and the other arts, as well as a cultural studies project about literary images of zoos.
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