Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. List of Abbreviations for T. S. Eliot’s Works ix
5. Acknowledgements xi
6. Notes on Contributors xii
7. Introduction: The Drama of the Poet 1
8. Part I. Avant-Garde
9. 1. T. S. Eliot’s Sweeney Agonistes and ‘a scenario for a ballet’ 13
10. 2. ‘Don’t make it arty’: Sweeney Agonistes as Closet Drama and the Fashioning of the Modernist Playwright 39
11. Part II. Ritual
12. 3. A ‘disturbance of the quiet seasons’: Eco-Spiritual Renewal in Murder in the Cathedral 65
13. 4. Ancient Feast and Urban Sacrifice in The Cocktail Party 86
14. Part III. The Stage
15. 5. The Rock on Page and Stage 111
16. 6. ‘Not pulpit oratory’: T. S. Eliot’s Audience, Christianity and The Family Reunion 140
17. Part IV. Turn
18. 7. Late to The Family Reunion; or, the Loop in Time 167
19. 8. ‘Where is he going?’: The Family Reunion, Emily Hale and the Uses of Hope 187
20. Part V. Popularity
21. 9. A Yorkshire Tragedy? The Family Reunion, the Twentieth-Century Crime Play and Elizabethan Domestic Tragedy 207
22. 10. The Playwright’s Progress: Rethinking T. S. Eliot’s Comedies 230
23. Index 249