Who wrote the poetic drama 'Murder in the Cathedral' in 1939?
"1930s W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood co-authored verse dramas, of which The Ascent of F6 (1936) is the most notable, that owed much to Bertolt Brecht. T. S. Eliot had begun this attempt to revive poetic drama with ""Sweeney Agonistes"" in 1932, and this was followed by ""The Rock"" (1934), ""Murder in the Cathedral"" (1935) and ""The Family Reunion"" (1939). There were three further plays after the war. An important cultural movement in the British theatre which developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s was Kitchen sink realism (or ""kitchen sink drama""), a term coined to describe art"
"Hospital, Westminster, on 27 April 1980, survived by his second wife. E. Martin Browne E. Martin Browne (29 January 1900 – 27 April 1980) was a British theatre director, known for his production of twentieth century verse plays. He collaborated for many years with T. S. Eliot and was first producer of many of his plays including ""Murder in the Cathedral"". Elliott Martin Browne was born in Zeals, Wiltshire, on 29 January 1900, the third son of Colonel Percival John Browne. He was educated at Eton College, and Christ Church, Oxford, where he studied modern history and theology. Between 1923"
"E. Martin Browne E. Martin Browne (29 January 1900 – 27 April 1980) was a British theatre director, known for his production of twentieth century verse plays. He collaborated for many years with T. S. Eliot and was first producer of many of his plays including ""Murder in the Cathedral"". Elliott Martin Browne was born in Zeals, Wiltshire, on 29 January 1900, the third son of Colonel Percival John Browne. He was educated at Eton College, and Christ Church, Oxford, where he studied modern history and theology. Between 1923 and 1930 he worked at a variety of jobs related to"
"George Hoellering George Michael Hoellering (20 July 1897 – 10 February 1980) was an Austrian film director, editor and producer, probably best known for directing and producing the 1951 British film ""Murder in the Cathedral"", which he co-wrote with T. S. Eliot, and for having been the director of the Academy Cinema in London's Oxford Street from 1944 until his death in 1980. George Hoellering was born in Baden, near Vienna, Austria, on 20 July 1897, the third of four children of the musician and impresario, Georg Höllering, and his wife, Maria Magdalene. Hoellering was the director of the Academy"
"Ernest Allnatt, a building contractor. He died in Suffolk on 10 February 1980. George Hoellering George Michael Hoellering (20 July 1897 – 10 February 1980) was an Austrian film director, editor and producer, probably best known for directing and producing the 1951 British film ""Murder in the Cathedral"", which he co-wrote with T. S. Eliot, and for having been the director of the Academy Cinema in London's Oxford Street from 1944 until his death in 1980. George Hoellering was born in Baden, near Vienna, Austria, on 20 July 1897, the third of four children of the musician and impresario, Georg"
"for the authorship of one scene and the choruses. George Bell, the Bishop of Chichester, had been instrumental in connecting Eliot with producer E. Martin Browne for the production of ""The Rock"", and later commissioned Eliot to write another play for the Canterbury Festival in 1935. This one, ""Murder in the Cathedral"", concerning the death of the martyr, Thomas Becket, was more under Eliot's control. Eliot biographer Peter Ackroyd comments that ""for [Eliot], ""Murder in the Cathedral"" and succeeding verse plays offered a double advantage; it allowed him to practice poetry but it also offered a convenient home for his"
"Canterbury Cathedral, the Gulbenkian Theatre at the University of Kent and the Marlowe Theatre as well as the artists' homes and studios where work is displayed. It was initiated in the 1920s by George Bell during his time as Dean of Canterbury. Guest artists during his time included John Mansfield, Gustav Holst, Dorothy L. Sayers, and T. S. Eliot (whose 1935 drama Murder in the Cathedral was commissioned by Bell for the festival). That was within the first ten years of the festival in which it had flourished, with its plays. The festival was established closely with the friends of"
"were similar to Claudel's. As with Eliot, even those who dislike Claudel's religious and political beliefs, have generally admitted his genius as a writer. The British poet W. H. Auden, at that time a left-leaning agnostic, acknowledged the importance of Paul Claudel in his famous poem ""In Memory of W. B. Yeats"" (1939). Writing about Yeats, Auden says in lines 52–55: Jean-Charles de Castelbajac wrote a song ""La soeur de Paul"" pour Mareva Galanter/2010. George Steiner, in ""The Death of Tragedy"", calls him one of the three ""masters of drama"" in the twentieth century. Paul Claudel was elected to the"
"choruses linking the loosely historical scenes of the pageant, which was played by amateurs and presented at Sadler's Wells Theatre for a fortnight's run in summer 1934. After this success, Bell invited Eliot and Browne to work on a play to be written by Eliot and presented at the Canterbury Festival the following year, with Browne as director. The title was ""Murder in the Cathedral"" and it was this production that established the collaboration between Eliot as poet-playwright and Martin Browne as director which was to last for twenty years. This first production, with Robert Speaight as Becket, was staged"
"Robert Speaight Robert William Speaight (; 1904 – 1976) was a British actor and writer, and the brother of George Speaight, the puppeteer. Speaight studied under Elsie Fogerty at the Central School of Speech and Drama, then based in the Royal Albert Hall, London. He was an early performer (from 1927) in radio plays. He came to prominence as Becket in the first production of T. S. Eliot's ""Murder in the Cathedral"". He went on to Shakespearean roles, and to direct. He also wrote criticism and essays, works on the theatre and biography. He was a Roman Catholic convert, and"
"died at the Churchill Hospital, Oxford, in 1966, aged 75. Outside of his priestly duties, Groser played Thomas Becket in the 1951 film ""Murder in the Cathedral"", based on a play by T. S. Eliot. Writing for ""The New York Times"", the reviewer Bosley Crowther praised his acting as ""grandly dignified and benign"". Groser was an Anglo-Catholic. Both his secondary school and divinity school were high-church institutions, and he was also influenced by the Catholic Crusade movement of Conrad Noel, a fellow Christian socialist. Groser advocated a return to the festivals, music, dancing, and processions of the medieval English church,"
"during 1935. The connection between the poem and the play is deep; many of the lines for the poem come from lines originally created for the play that were, on E. Martin Brown's advice, removed from the script. Years later, Eliot recollected: There were lines and fragments that were discarded in the course of the production of ""Murder in the Cathedral"". 'Can't get them over on the stage,' said the producer, and I humbly bowed to his judgment. However, these fragments stayed in my mind, and gradually I saw a poem shaping itself round them: in the end it came"
"(1973), ""The Best of Enemies"" (1976), ""Sister Dora"" (1977), and ""Star Over Bethlehem"" (1981). <br> <br> Christopher Fry Christopher Fry (18 December 1907 – 30 June 2005) was an English poet and playwright. He is best known for his verse dramas, notably ""The Lady's Not for Burning"", which made him a major force in theatre in the 1940s and 1950s. Fry was born as Arthur Hammond Harris in Bristol, the son of Charles John Harris, a master builder who retired early to work full-time as a licensed Lay Reader in the Church of England, and his wife Emma Marguerite Fry"
"second son was Edward Maturin, who emigrated to the United States and became a novelist and poet there. Charles Maturin Charles Robert Maturin, also known as C. R. Maturin (25 September 1782 – 30 October 1824), was an Irish Protestant clergyman (ordained in the Church of Ireland) and a writer of Gothic plays and novels. His best known work is the novel ""Melmoth the Wanderer"". Maturin was descended from Huguenots who found shelter in Ireland, one of whom was Gabriel Jacques Maturin who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin after Jonathan Swift in 1745. Charles Robert Maturin was born"
"Modernist movement. It was followed by some of the best-known poems in the English language, including ""The Waste Land"" (1922), ""The Hollow Men"" (1925), ""Ash Wednesday"" (1930), and ""Four Quartets"" (1943). He was also known for his seven plays, particularly ""Murder in the Cathedral"" (1935) and ""The Cocktail Party"" (1949). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, ""for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry"". The Eliots were a Boston Brahmin family with roots in Old and New England. Thomas Eliot's paternal grandfather, William Greenleaf Eliot, had moved to St. Louis, Missouri, to establish a Unitarian Christian"
"The Murder ""The Murder"" is a cinematic score written and composed by Bernard Herrmann for the horror-thriller film ""Psycho"" (1960) directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The score, its second movement in particular, is well recognized as arguably one of the most famous scores in film history. It scored for an original orchestra's string section. The score was composed for the famous ""shower scene"", the murder of Janet Leigh's character, Marion Crane. Hitchcock originally wanted the sequence (and all motel scenes) to play without music, but Herrmann insisted he try it with the cue he had composed. Afterward, Hitchcock agreed that it"
"The Cocktail Party The Cocktail Party is a play by T. S. Eliot. Elements of the play are based on ""Alcestis"", by the Ancient Greek playwright Euripides. The play was the most popular of Eliot's seven plays in his lifetime, although his 1935 play, ""Murder in the Cathedral"", is better remembered today. It was written while Eliot was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1948. ""The Cocktail Party"" was first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1949. In 1950 the play had successful runs in London and New York theaters (the Broadway production received the 1950"
"Charles Maturin Charles Robert Maturin, also known as C. R. Maturin (25 September 1782 – 30 October 1824), was an Irish Protestant clergyman (ordained in the Church of Ireland) and a writer of Gothic plays and novels. His best known work is the novel ""Melmoth the Wanderer"". Maturin was descended from Huguenots who found shelter in Ireland, one of whom was Gabriel Jacques Maturin who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin after Jonathan Swift in 1745. Charles Robert Maturin was born in Dublin and attended Trinity College. Shortly after being ordained as curate of Loughrea, County Galway, in 1803,"
"served as visiting professor of religious drama at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, and from 1962 to 1965 he was drama adviser to Coventry Cathedral, directing the mediaeval mystery plays there in 1962 and 1964. In 1967 and 1968 he directed at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford, the plays being ""Murder in the Cathedral"", ""The Family Reunion"", Thornton Wilder's ""Our Town"" and ""The Long Christmas Dinner"", and the mediaeval morality play, ""Everyman"". He was appointed CBE in 1952. Following the death of Henzie Raeburn, in 1974 he married Audrey Johnson. He died in the Middlesex"
"Canterbury. During this time, he initiated the Canterbury Festival of the arts, with guest artists such as John Masefield, Gustav Holst, Dorothy L. Sayers and T. S. Eliot (whose 1935 drama ""Murder in the Cathedral"" was commissioned by Bell for the festival). Later Bell also received Mahatma Gandhi at Canterbury. In 1929 Bell was appointed Bishop of Chichester. In this role he organised links between his diocese and of workers affected by the Great Depression. He also took part in the meetings of the National Union of Public Employees, where he was welcomed as ""brother Bell"". From 1932 to 1934"
"Roman poet Lucan. Dorothy L. Sayers Dorothy Leigh Sayers (; 13 June 1893 – 17 December 1957) was a renowned English crime writer and poet. She was also a student of classical and modern languages. She is best known for her mysteries, a series of novels and short stories set between the First and Second World Wars that feature English aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, which remain popular to this day. However, Sayers herself considered her translation of Dante's ""Divine Comedy"" to be her best work. She is also known for her plays, literary criticism, and essays. Sayers,"
"the predominantly secular life of the community to continue. In 1951, in the first Theodore Spencer Memorial Lecture at Harvard University Eliot criticized his own plays in the second half of the lecture, explicitly the plays ""Murder in the Cathedral"", ""The Family Reunion"", and ""The Cocktail Party"". The lecture was published as ""Poetry and Drama"" and later included in Eliot's 1957 collection ""On Poetry and Poets"". Edward and Lavinia Chamberlayne are separated after five years of marriage. She leaves Edward just as they are about to host a cocktail party at their London home, and he has to come up"
"from Julius Caesar"", were completed or re-transcribed after his death by his student Geoffrey Bush. John Ireland (composer) John Nicholson Ireland (13 August 187912 June 1962) was an English composer and teacher of music. The majority of his output consists of piano miniatures and of songs with piano. His best-known works include the short instrumental or orchestral work ""The Holy Boy"", a setting of the poem ""Sea Fever"" by John Masefield, a formerly much-played Piano Concerto, the hymn tune Love Unknown and the choral motet ""Greater Love Hath No Man"". John Ireland was born in Bowdon, near Altrincham, Cheshire, into"
"Truman Capote Truman Garcia Capote (; born Truman Streckfus Persons, September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, including the novella ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" (1958) and the true crime novel ""In Cold Blood"" (1966), which he labeled a ""nonfiction novel"". At least 20 films and television dramas have been produced from his work. Capote rose above a childhood troubled by divorce, a long absence from his mother, and multiple migrations. He had discovered his calling as"
"attack on 25 November 1937, aged 63 in Lambeth, South London, the night before the Old Vic was to open a production of ""Macbeth"" starring Laurence Olivier and Judith Anderson. She was cremated at East London Cemetery and Crematorium, where her ashes were scattered at her own request. There is a memorial plaque for Lilian Baylis at the Actors' Church, St Paul's, in the heart of Covent Garden. In 1985, English National Opera created an education and outreach department, naming it the Baylis Programme called in Lilian Baylis's honour. The Baylis Programme (now called eno baylis) was led for ten"
"Chapel passage. He is also named on the War Memorial in the antechapel at All Souls College. Patrick Shaw Stewart is named on a war memorial just outside Munlochy Highlands. Patrick Shaw-Stewart Patrick Houston Shaw-Stewart (17 August 1888 – 30 December 1917) was an Eton College (1901-1906) and Balliol College, Oxford (1907-1910) scholar and poet of the Edwardian era who died on active service as a battalion commander in the British Royal Naval Division during the First World War. He is best remembered today for his poem ""Achilles in the Trench"", one of the best-known war poems of the First"
"and wrote plays that appeared in the West End and on Broadway. The Ashley Dukes Company was an important interwar promoter of serious drama, and a training ground for actors. Dukes mounted the first theatrical performance of ""Murder in the Cathedral"" at the Mercury, driving down to Canterbury with Eliot to collect scenery and costumes. (He rejected W. B. Yeats' dramatic ""oeuvre"" for the same stage much to Yeats' annoyance.) He was the older brother of MI6 spy Paul Dukes and pathologist Cuthbert Dukes, and grandfather of poet Aidan Andrew Dun. Ashley Dukes Ashley Dukes (29 May 1885 – 4"
"Thomas Lovell Beddoes Thomas Lovell Beddoes (30 June 1803 – 26 January 1849) was an English poet, dramatist and physician. Born in Clifton, Bristol, England, he was the son of Dr. Thomas Beddoes, a friend of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Anna, sister of Maria Edgeworth. He was educated at Charterhouse and Pembroke College, Oxford. He published in 1821 ""The Improvisatore"", which he afterwards endeavoured to suppress. His next venture, a blank-verse drama called ""The Bride's Tragedy"" (1822), was published and well reviewed, and won for him the friendship of Barry Cornwall. Beddoes' work shows a constant preoccupation with death. In"
"Patrick Shaw-Stewart Patrick Houston Shaw-Stewart (17 August 1888 – 30 December 1917) was an Eton College (1901-1906) and Balliol College, Oxford (1907-1910) scholar and poet of the Edwardian era who died on active service as a battalion commander in the British Royal Naval Division during the First World War. He is best remembered today for his poem ""Achilles in the Trench"", one of the best-known war poems of the First World War. He was born in Aber Artro Hall, near Llanbedr, Wales. His career was one of great academic brilliance, matched by a steely determination to succeed. He came first"
"a Grecian Urn"" by Philip Napier Miles; ""Magnificat"" and ""Flourish for a Coronation"" by Ralph Vaughan Williams; Constant Lambert's ""Summer's Last Will and Testament"", Igor Stravinsky's ""Oedipus Rex"", Sergei Rachmaninoff's ""The Bells"" and Paul Hindemith's ""Mathis der Maler"". The choir was suspended in 1939 at the outbreak of World War II: when the London Philharmonic Choir was formed in 1946 Scott was unable to resume direction, and a new conductor was appointed. The choir played a major part with the London Symphony Orchestra in Sir Thomas Beecham's 'revitalisation' of George Frideric Handel's ""Messiah"" in December 1926, and undertook much of"
"quiet dread"". The Church (1989 film) The Church (Italian title: La chiesa), also known as Cathedral of Demons or Demon Cathedral, is a 1989 Italian horror film directed by Michele Soavi. It was produced by Dario Argento with Mario Cecchi Gori and Vittorio Cecchi Gori, and written by Argento, Soavi, Franco Ferrini, Dardano Sacchetti, Lamberto and Fabrizio Bava. It stars Hugh Quarshie, Tomas Arana, Barbara Cupisti, Asia Argento, Feodor Chaliapin, Jr. and Giovanni Lombardo Radice. ""The Church"" is considered as the official second sequel to the ""Dèmoni"" series. Although it was originally intended to be the third film in the"
"Geist -und Weltlich Lieder. Johann Sebastiani Johann Sebastiani (30 September 1622 – 1683) was a German baroque composer. Sebastiani was born in Weimar. He became Kantor at Königsberg cathedral in 1661, and court ""Kapellmeister"" from 1663 to 1679. He died in Königsberg. His works include sacred and occasional pieces and songs; the most famous is his ""St Matthew Passion"" (before 1663, performed again 1672). He is the first composer who introduce chorale into oratorio passion. Within the St Matthew Passion, Sebastiani includes eight different chorale melodies and introduces thirteen chorale verses. This work is a development from the style of"
"la justice mettre le nez dans nos draps"" (""The Oscar Wilde Affair, or, On the Danger of Allowing Justice to put its Nose in our Sheets"") by , a French religious historian. Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"", and the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. Wilde's parents were successful Anglo-Irish"