Macavity Macavity Macavity is a fictional character who is described in a poem in "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats", by T. S. Eliot. He also appears in "Cats", the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. The name "Macavity" is a pun by T. S. Eliot, on the names of several characters from other works of literature : "Macheath," a supervillain who appears both in John Gay's "The Beggar's Opera", its sequel "Polly" and roughly 200 years later as Mack the Knife in "The Threepenny Opera" written by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill in 1928, "macuahuitl", the Aztec obsidian sword, and "Moriarty", the
T. S. Eliot bibliography T. S. Eliot bibliography The T. S. Eliot bibliography contains a list of works by T. S. Eliot. The following is a list of books of poetry by T. S. Eliot arranged chronologically by first edition. Some of Eliot's poems were first published in booklet or pamphlet format (such as his "Ariel poems".) The following is a list of plays by T. S. Eliot arranged chronologically by first edition. The following is a list of non-fiction books by T. S. Eliot arranged chronologically by first edition. The following is a list of books of letters by T. S. Eliot arranged