Murder in the Cathedral
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"Samuel Pisar similarly maintained (in a panel discussion broadcast over the French radio on 11 February 1973) that the first multinational organization was the Catholic Church and that the first clash between a nation state and such an organization involved Henry II, King of England , and Thomas à Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury (of Murder in the Cathedral fame)"--Culture and Management: Selected Readings (1977) by Theodore D. Weinshall |
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Murder in the Cathedral is a verse drama by T. S. Eliot, first performed in 1935, that 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.