Murder in the Cathedral
Written in 1934, Murder in the Cathedral tells of the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral during the reign of Henry II in 1170. Praised for its poetically masterful handling of issues of faith, politics, and the common good, T. S. Eliot’s celebrated play solidified his reputation as the most significant poet of his time.
- About the author: Thomas Stearns Elliot was born in 1888 in Saint Louis, Missouri and became a British subject in 1927. The acclaimed poet of The Waste Land, Four Quartets, and Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, among numerous other poems and prose works, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. T.S. Elliot died in 1965 in London and lies buried in Westminster Abbey.
