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Murder in the Cathedral
T. S. Eliot
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Description for Murder in the Cathedral
Paperback. Editor(s): Coghill, Nevill. Num Pages: 160 pages, notes. BIC Classification: DD; YQC. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 136.
Professor Coghill was invited to prepare this annotated edition of Murder in the Cathedral by Eliot himself, and he approved his introduction. Coghill discusses Eliot's subject matter, and the play's importance in his oeuvre. Forty pages of notes elucidate textual difficulties, and include a valuable discussion of some wider issues. The references to the production of the play in the theatre are of great interest. There are three appendices on the historical context; on the metre of Everyman, which influenced the versification of Murder in the Cathedral; and on Tennyson's poetic drama Becket, which offers a striking contrast to Eliot's ... Read more
Professor Coghill was invited to prepare this annotated edition of Murder in the Cathedral by Eliot himself, and he approved his introduction. Coghill discusses Eliot's subject matter, and the play's importance in his oeuvre. Forty pages of notes elucidate textual difficulties, and include a valuable discussion of some wider issues. The references to the production of the play in the theatre are of great interest. There are three appendices on the historical context; on the metre of Everyman, which influenced the versification of Murder in the Cathedral; and on Tennyson's poetic drama Becket, which offers a striking contrast to Eliot's ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1973
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571063277
SKU
V9780571063277
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99-40
About T. S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He settled in England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.
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