T. S. Eliot’s
Elizabethan Essays, dedicated to the work of Shakespeare and other contemporary dramatists, were published in 1934 as a more tightly curated selection of his
Selected Essays(1932). The choice to assemble a thematic volume testifies to Eliot’s life-long interest and engagement, both creative and critical, with Early Modern literature and drama. This fascination, first kindled by his studies and by the extension school courses he taught in England between 1915 and 1918, “became vital to Eliot’s critical imagination” (Schuchard, 51). The 11 essays included in the book were written over a period of 15 years, from 1919 to 1934, and the collection was later reprinted in the US with a few omissions under the title of
Essays on Elizabethan Drama(1956).
The 1934 British
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