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Murder in the Cathedral: A Dramatization of the murder of Thomas Becket at Canterbury

Murder in the Cathedral: A Dramatization of the murder of Thomas Becket at Canterbury

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Murder in the Cathedral: A Dramatization of the murder of Thomas Becket at Canterbury

by Eliot, T. S

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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1936]. First Revised Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. A Very Good copy of the second American edition, first printing -- being the first revised edition (some wear to the spine ends and tiny rubs to the leading board corners) in a Very Good dust jacket (with some general wear, toning, tiny ink insertion in the title immediately prior to "Becket", small stain to the front panel at the "D" in "MURDER"); a dramatization of the murder of Thomas Becket at Canterbury; an act which nearly cost Henry II the English Throne. In this second edition, Eliot deleted the dialogue of the three Priests which had appeared at the beginning of Part II and replaced it with a speech by the Chorus. These changes brought the text into conformity with a then-recent production of the Play at the Mercury Theatre in London. T. S. Eliot won the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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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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Title
Murder in the Cathedral: A Dramatization of the murder of Thomas Becket at Canterbury
Author
Eliot, T. S
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Hardcover
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Used - Very good
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Edition
First Revised Edition, First Printing
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace and Company
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
[1936]
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