Both Murder in the Cathedral and Becket remain fresh and vibrant. They feel like works for our times, and that may be because they are in fact works for all times. Another Henry, another Thomas ...

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 ...

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 ...

The story of St. Thomas Becket’s life and death have inspired ... Eliot (1888-1965) wrote the verse drama Murder in the Cathedral, published in 1935, about the sainted Becket.

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