A dramatization in free verse and with features derived from ancient and medieval theatre of the killing of Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury under King Henry II. Eliot used the device of a chorus, an ancient Greek invention, to express certain concerns and observations, and the killers take their …
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A dramatization in free verse and with features derived from ancient and medieval theatre of the killing of Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury under King Henry II. Eliot used the device of a chorus, an ancient Greek invention, to express certain concerns and observations, and the killers take their turn to justify their action. When I read this play as a grammar school student in England, I was struck by the way the violence echoed the rise of fascism in Europe when the play was being written. My English master was somewhat mocking in class regarding my views, but later as a college student I read Eliot's own words confirming my experience.
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Murder in the cathedral.
72 pages
English language
Published Jan. 6, 1961 by Faber and Faber.
Asesinato en la catedral
93 pages
Spanish language
Published Jan. 6, 1960 by Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
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- 4587274
Murder in the cathedral
88 pages
English language
Published Jan. 6, 1968 by Faber.
Murder in the cathedral
94 pages
English language
Published Jan. 6, 1968 by Faber.
Murder in the cathedral
72 pages
English language
Published Jan. 6, 1961 by Faber and Faber.
Murder in the cathedral
94 pages
English language
Published Jan. 6, 1968 by Faber and Faber.
Murder in the cathedral.
88 pages
English language
Published Jan. 6, 1952 by Faber.
Murder in the cathedral
88 pages
English language
Published Jan. 6, 1963 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
Murder in the cathedral
88 pages
English language
Published Jan. 6, 1957 by Faber.
Murder in the cathedral.
86 pages
English language
Published Jan. 6, 1948 by Harcourt, Brace.
Murder in the cathedral
100 pages
English language
Published Jan. 6, 1961 by Kingswood House in association with Faber & Faber, London.
Murder in the cathedral.
72 pages
English language
Published Jan. 6, 1967 by Faber.
Murder in the Cathedral
88 pages
English language
Published Jan. 6, 1942 by Faber.
Murder in the cathedral
128 pages
English language
Published Jan. 6, 1959 by Kingswood House.
Assassinio nella cattedrale
51 pages
Italian language
Published Jan. 6, 1958 by Ricordi.
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