Murder in the Cathedral - Softcover

Eliot, T.S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 057108611X ISBN 13: 9780571086115

Publisher: Faber and Faber, 1976

Synopsis

Murder in the Cathedral, written for the Canterbury Festival on 1935, was the first high point on T. S. Eliot's dramatic achievement. It remains one of the great plays of the century. Like Greek drama, its theme and form are rooted in religion and ritual purgation and renewal, and it was this return to the earliest sources of drama that brought poetry triumphantly back to the English stage.

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Review:

Murder in the Cathedral revives the awesome 1953 Old Vic performance of Eliot's play about the power struggle between Henry II and Thomas Becket, originally performed in the cathedral itself at the 1935 Canterbury Festival. In it you will hear echoes - 'Humankind cannot bear very much reality' - taken up in 'Burnt Norton'...this was Robert Donat's finest performance. --Christina Hardyment, The Times

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 057108611X
• ISBN 13: 9780571086115
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96