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Which Greek play inspired T.S. Eliot’s The Cocktail Party?

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T.S. Eliot stands at a chalkboard, writing a diagram with letters and Greek symbols representing characters for a play, in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study. — T.S. Eliot T.S. Eliot working on his play The Cocktail Party in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, 1948. The letters of the alphabet in his diagram represent characters in the play. The Greek letters represent characters yet to be invented.

T.S. Eliot’s play The Cocktail Party (1949) was inspired by the Greek play Alcestis, written by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides.123