Murder in the Cathedral
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It's those people she notices: the poor, the ordinary, as represented by the chorus in Murder in the Cathedral: "Who will intercede for them?"
From The Guardian • Apr. 2, 2010
In Murder in the Cathedral, Eliot maintained that "Christian martyrdom is no accident" but an act prearranged either by God or the doomed man.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the 1935 festival T. S. Eliot wrote Murder in the Cathedral.
From Time Magazine Archive
Eliot's brilliant Murder in the Cathedral is a churchly pageant, its great poetry close to litany, concentrating on Becket's temptation to martyrdom and using his murder for savage satire on the hypocritical rationalizations of tyrants.
From Time Magazine Archive
The title of the movie for a Venice Film Festival world premiere last week was Murder in the Cathedral, and a lot of people who bought tickets expected a detective story.
From Time Magazine Archive
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