Murder in the Cathedral (1947)

Cast

Robert Speaight (Archbishop Thomas Becket)Norman Tyrrell (First priest)Frank Foster (Second priest)Stanley Lawson (A herald)Mackenzie Ward (First tempter)John Stuart (Second tempter)Aubrey Dexter (Third tempter)E. Martin Browne (Fourth tempter)Victor Lucas (First knight)Alan Judd (Second knight)Anthony Sharp (Fourth knight)Eileen ThorndikeJoy HaringtonEileen VineYvonne CouletteViolet GouldHelen Stephens

Synopsis

T. S. Eliot's portrayal of the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170. The dialogue is written almost entirely in rhyming verse and the chorus in free verse.

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