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Murder in the Cathedral

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noun

  1. a verse drama (1935) by T. S. Eliot.


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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

His plays, including Murder in the Cathedral, The Cocktail Party and The Confidential Clerk, won him increased fame, as did his Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the judgment of E. Martin Browne, who directed all of Eliot's plays, Murder in the Cathedral is the one most sure of a lasting place in the repertory.

From Time Magazine Archive

He also rather tends to defeat them: Anouilh's long play has the weaknesses without the high compensatory moments of Murder in the Cathedral.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fine performances by Laurence Olivier and Anthony Quinn help Jean Anouilh's rather superficial version of Murder in the Cathedral.

From Time Magazine Archive

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