murder in the cathedral

     

Murer in the Cathedral is a poetic drama by T. S. Eliot that portrays the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170. Eliot drew heavily on the writing of Edward Grim, a clerk who was an eyewitness to the event.

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  • Pizzetti's opera "Assassinio Nella Cattedrale" is based on this T.S. Eliot play
  • Eliot:Becket buys the farm
  • Appropriately, this 1935 T.S. Eliot play is often performed in churches
  • What's this? I don't believe it! Becket just said, "Unbar the door!" He's letting in the knights!
  • Appropriately, this verse drama was first produced at the 1935 Canterbury Festival

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