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.
- ISBN10 1322370133
- ISBN13 9781322370132
- Publish Date 1 January 2013 (first published December 1959)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 11 March 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format eBook
- Language English