THE CONFIDENTIAL CLERK PB B FORMAT – T. S. ELIOT

The Confidential Clerk was first produced at the Edinburgh Festival in the summer of 1953. The dialogue of The Confidential Clerk has a precision and a lightly felt rhythm unmatched in the writing of any contemporary dramatist. Times Literary Supplement A triumph of dramatic skill: the handling of the two levels of the play is masterly and Eliot s verse registers its greatest achievement on the stage – passages of great lyrical beauty are incorporated into the dialogue. Spectator