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6 matches to Becket
Anouilh, Jean. 1910-87. French dramatist: Antigone, Becket 1959.
Becket, St. Thomas à. 1118-70. Archbishop of Canterbury 1162-, murdered in Cathedral by Henry II’s knights.
Beckett, Samuel. 1906-89. English/Irish novelist, dramatist expressing man’s suffering: Waiting for Godot 1952. Endgame.
Clarendon Constitution. 1164. Henry II limits church power in England. Opposed by Becket.
Henry II. 1133-1189. Plantagenet king of England 1154-. Common Law system. Married Eleanor of Aquitaine. Angevin Empire. Becket. Rosamund.
Theater of the Absurd. 1950-70. Depicts human condition as meaningless. Beckett. Ionesco.