Murder in the Cathedral
$35.06
- Paperback
80 pages
- Release Date
30 November 2020
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780571362790 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0571362796 |
| Author: | T.S. Eliot |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Imprint: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 30 November 2020 |
| Weight: | 105g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 7mm |
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A triumph of poetic genius. – New Yorker
A triumph of poetic genius. – New Yorker
About The Author
T.S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He came to England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.
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