The Elder Statesman - First Edition - Ex Library

First Edition, ex library book with no dust jacket. Book in very good condition has some scratches and fading to the boards, no spine lean, back board slightly bent, some rubbing and rounding to the corners, text block has some foxing, pages majority clean. Library stamps on end papers and title page. T. S. Eliot s last play, drafted originally in 1955 but not completed until three years later. Lord Claverton, an eminent former cabinet minister and banker, is helped to confront his past by the love of his daughter, his Antigone. The dialogue in The Elder Statesman, the love scenes in particular, contain some of Eliot s most tender and expressive writing for the theatre. The play was first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1958.