![]() ![]() His true motives, in fact, remain unknown to us, shrouded in mystery and illuminated only within his own conscience. Not only this, but Eliot keeps something of Becket, as a paragon of the Christian martyr, remote and unknowable. ![]() Martyrdom involves a degree of self-erasure or abnegation, rather than a glorification of the individual. ![]() Although Becket is obviously placed centre-stage (literally) in Murder in the Cathedral, it is worth observing that he doesn’t appear in the play’s title, in stark contrast to Tennyson’s earlier dramatising of the same event (his 1884 verse-drama Becket) or Jean Anouilh’s later Becket or the Honour of God (1959 memorably filmed as Becket with Richard Burton in the title role, opposite Peter O’Toole as Henry II). ![]()
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