Murder in the Cathedral

Murder in the Cathedral
T S Eliot
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Paperback
h198 x 126mm - 80pg
15 Oct 2020 UK
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9780571362790
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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. This anniversary edition marks 850 years since Becket' s dramatic murder, and eighty-five years since Eliot' s play was first performed.
A triumph of poetic genius. -- New Yorker
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.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780571362790
Published: 15 Oct 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 126mm
Spine: 5mm
Weight: 94g
Pages: 80

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