“AT SOME point in their marriage Tom Eliot went mad and promptly certified his wife.”
That’s what Edith Sitwell said to Michael Hastings before he wrote this absorbing, moving play in 1984, and, if Tom and Viv is to believed, she had a point. Eliot’s first wife was mischievous, erratic and sometimes pretty peculiar. But was T. S., who had vowed undying love for her, justified in so utterly abandoning a woman who could claim to be his muse, or at least his Dark Lady?
But then, as Hastings concedes in his intro to the text, Tom and Viv isn’t wholly to be believed. The play belongs to that increasingly popular but deeply questionable genre, speculative biography, or “faction”.
“诗人与他的情人”克莱尔·霍尔曼出演，Talk about insecurity
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