MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL by T S Eliot

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MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL by T S Eliot

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Murder in the Cathedral, written for the Canterbury Festival in 1935, was one of T. S. Eliot’s first dramatic achievements, and it remains one of the great plays of the century.
It takes as its subject matter the martyrdom of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, depicting the events that led to his assassination, in his own cathedral church, by the knights of Henry II in 1170. Like Greek drama, the play’s theme and form are rooted in religion, ritual purgation and renewal, and it was this return to the earliest sources of drama that brought poetry triumphantly back to the English stage at the time.

Published by Faber

94 pages

This is an ex-school library book and contains a few inked stamps but they do not obscure the text in any way. The book is in a plastic slip cover. All in good condition

Weight 0.175 kg