Murder in the Cathredal
by T. S. ELIOT [signed]
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Brooklyn, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Faber and Faber, 1936. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 2nd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾. Murder in the Cathedral, poetic drama in two parts, with a prose sermon interlude, the most successful play by American English poet T.S. Eliot. The play was performed at Canterbury Cathedral in 1935 and published the same year. Set in December 1170, it is a modern miracle play on the martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury. The play's most striking feature is the use of a chorus in the Classical Greek manner. The poor women of Canterbury who make up the chorus nervously await Thomas's return from his seven-year exile, fretting over his volatile relationship with King Henry II. Thomas arrives and must resist four temptations: worldly pleasures, lasting power as chancellor, recognition as a leader of the barons against the king, and eternal glory as a martyr. After Thomas delivers his Christmas morning sermon, four knights in the service of the king accost him and order him to leave the kingdom. When he refuses, they return to slay him in the cathedral. .
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- Bookseller
- Peter Austern & Co. Books & Ephemera / Brooklyn Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Murder in the Cathredal
- Author
- T. S. ELIOT [signed]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1936
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾
- Keywords
- Literature / Signed
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed; Literature; Books Into Stage, Screen, Video;
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