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Murder in the Cathedral as BIOGRAPHICAL
In The Making of T.S. Eliot's Plays Martin Browne states that Eliot found in the
Becket story something eternal: "at the moment when he was called upon to write his
play, he found that the basic conflict of the twentieth century came very near to
repeating that of the twelfth.” Browne also sees the rise of fascism in the 1930s as a
serious form of social threat that Becket fights in his play. Such an approach is also
corroborated by Ashley Dukes in “T.S. Eliot in the Theatre.” He says, “Other things
conspired to remind us of the play's actuality; indeed it was never allowed to become
historical drama for a moment. Hitler had been long enough in power to ensure that
the four knightly murderers of Beckets would be recognized as figures of the day,
four perfect Nazis defending their act on the most orthodox totalitarian grounds.
Echoes of one war and forebodings of another resounded through the sultry
afternoon."​

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