Word: celia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eliot's favorito writers). But in Eliot's play the fun has just begun when Alcestis--Lavinia returns from the dead. Lavinia and her husband realize that time's only issue has been grief and anxiety, and that their marriage in its present state cannot last. Celia Coplestone, Edward's quondam mistress (apparently considered to be another aspect of Alcestis) decides that she is also far from mental health...
Eliot divides his characters into two categories: those who are saints and those who are not. Only Celia Coplestone is canonized and she suffers martyrdom at the hands of the natives of Kakanji, in an unintentially Waughbegone fashion. For the unsainted remainder, Harcourt-Reilly declares that "the best of a bad job is all any of us can make...