From seven years in France, Thomas a Becket returned to England in uneasy peace with his king. Four weeks later he was murdered upon the altar of Canterbury ... of Murder in the Cathedral.

Thomas Becket was Archbishop of Canterbury, the most important bishop in England. In 1170, he was brutally murdered in Canterbury Cathedral. Historians have long debated whether his murder was on ...

Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral ... of his death on the people of Canterbury. But Thomas' martyrdom is to have universal meaning. For this reason, Becket and every person in the play, seem ...

Mine is Thomas Becket, the martyred archbishop of Canterbury, whose feast day ... Eliot’s great verse play, Murder in the Cathedral, and Richard Burton’s stoic, manful performance in Becket ...

Today is the Feast Day of Thomas Becket: Martyr and ... of Becket’s martyrdom in the Canterbury Cathedral. T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) wrote the verse drama Murder in the Cathedral, published ...

On 29 December 1170, Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, was brutally murdered in his cathedral by four knights of his King and one-time friend, Henry II. In the space of ten years, a close ...

Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was murdered as ... to visit the places in the cathedral associated with Becket's murder. "The Becket story can really still speak to us today, it ...

The problem was that a group of knights took Henry at his word and promptly set off for Canterbury, where they slaughtered Becket in his own cathedral ... murder. Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas ...