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Murder in The Cathedral | T.S. Eliot | Verse Drama | 20th Century's Poem and Drama

Q: Survive all Internal Elements on " Murder in The Cathedral " by Thomas Stearns Eliot .   Introduction : " Murder in the Cathedral " is a verse drama by T. S. Eliot , first performed in 1935 (published the same year). The play portrays the assassination of Archbishop, Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral during the reign of Henry II in 1170 . Eliot drew heavily on the writing of Edward Grim , a clerk who was an eyewitness to the event. It often called T. S. Eliot ’s first play, and is probably Eliot’s best-known play, and his only completed work of historical drama. " 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

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