Eliot was very serious about his playwrights. His interest in drama has shown since the beginning of his career. Many things including his poem, The Waste Land, show the 'dramatic character of his imaginaton.' Eliot wanted to understand the technique of theatre so well that he could forget about it. He said, "I always feel it's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them." I think what he means by this is that he wanted to perfect the rules and everything he did concerning the theatre. He wanted to make sure everything was done right and that things felt natural in his playwrights. Eliot said that if there wasn't another war in 1939, then he would have tried to begin another play. He is thankful he didn't do this because he would have been rushing it. Instead, Eliot wrote poems concering the war during that time. This interests me because from what I've been reading, Eliot's plays were very well constructed. I don't fully understand why he didn't want to write plays anymore during that time if he was successful with them.

Contemporary Authors Online, Thomson Gale, 2005. 7 April 2012.