Murder in the Cathedral
by T.S. Eliot
Published for the first time: 1/1/1936
148 pages, Paperback
Genres: Plays, Theatre, Drama, Historical Fiction, Poetry, Fiction, Classics
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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