![]() ![]() ![]() The Chamberlaynes, though they are aristocrats, live and move in a world with which we are all familiar. It will not do, “to transport the audience into some imaginary world totally unlike its own, an unreal world in which poetry is tolerated.” Hence it is that for The Cocktail Party he took a theme from contemporary life, with characters of our own time, living in our own world, and demonstrated that poetic plays could be written with success on contemporary subjects. But he soon realised that if poetic drama is to be revived the present age, poetry must be brought into the world in which the audience lives and to which it returns when it leaves the theatre. For his first play, Murder in the Cathedral, Eliot also had chosen a medieval subject. Traditionally, mythological and historical subjects were considered suitable for poetic drama. The main problems of poetic drama are two: the problems of a suitable theme, and of a suitable medium of communication. ![]()
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