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Murder in the Cathedral

Published
Mar 1964
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General Fiction General Fiction
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96

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T. S. Eliot's verse dramatization of the murder of Thomas Becket at Canterbury, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

 

The Archbishop Thomas Becket speaks fatal words before he is martyred in T. S. Eliot's best-known drama, based on the murder of the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1170. Praised for its poetically masterful handling of issues of faith, politics, and the common good, T. S. Eliot's play bolstered his reputation as the most significant poet of his time.

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Mar 1964 Harvest ISBN 0156632772
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Feb 2014 Houghton Mifflin ISBN B00IQYQW7C
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Nov 2011 Naxos AudioBooks ISBN B006963KME
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