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	Becket
		Becket Closed 11 December 2004 is a Play by Jean Anouilh in a new translation Frederic and Stephen Raphael.
		Henry made Becket Archbishop of Canterbury and finally, with a purpose to his life, Becket followed his new vocation with such zeal that their two worlds could only collide, with devastating consequences.
		Becket John Caird's revival of Jean Anouilh's play Becket at The Haymarket Theatre Royal has posted closing notices for 11 December 2004 The cast of 15 features Dougray Scott as 'Becket' and Jasper Britton as 'Henry II'.
	www.londontheatreticketweb.co.uk /the_becket.htm (249 words)

	Becket or The Honor of God
		Becket is appointed an archdeacon of Canterbury, but he is not a priest and has never celebrated a mass.
		Henry and Becket share a love of hunting and chess but—contrary to the depiction in the play—Becket draws the line at womanizing, having taken a vow of chastity in his youth.
		Becket gives away his luxurious possessions, wearing a monk’s habit, and beneath it, to remind himself of the weakness of the flesh, a rough hair shirt.
	www.stmarksplayers.org /seasons/20042005/becket/becket.htm (5677 words)

	Becket (1964)
		Becket's tomb became a popular destination for pilgrimages for centuries, but it was looted and destroyed in the early 16th century in the Dissolution of the Monasteries during Henry VIII's reign, as part of the Church of England's break from Rome.
		Becket was nominated for a whole flock of Oscars including Best Actor Oscar nominations for both Burton and O'Toole and a Best Supporting Actor nomination for John Gielgud as King Louis VII of France.
		Becket is one fine drama that holds up well today about a man who found a higher calling as he saw it and a king who was wounded to the heart at what he saw as betrayal.
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	Becket (1964)
		In a way the 12th-century events of Becket, which is the earlier story (and also the earlier play, and the earlier film), play as a kind of dress rehearsal for the more momentous 16th-century events related in A Man for All Seasons.
		Thomas Becket was in reality a Norman, but the film makes him a Saxon in order to generate cultural and ethnic tension with Henry, the Norman monarch.
		The high ritual of ecclesiastical ceremony — the consecration of Becket as Archbishop, the excommunication of an aristocrat — is reproduced in impressive and reverent detail, and the magnificent score includes some fine Latin chant.
	decentfilms.com /sections/reviews/becket.html (955 words)

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		Becket is one of the great historical epics and features one of cinema's most legendary pairings; Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole.
		However Becket takes his new duties seriously and his devotion to God soon brings him into direct conflict with the State and his lifelong friend.
		An excellent and faithful rendition of the play by Anouilh with superb performances from an unlikely Richard Burton playing the role of Thomas Becket and Peter O'Toole in the role of King Henry.
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	Becket (1964) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Becket is shown as being a guide to Henry, but less from a master/pupil standpoint as it is a clever diplomatic with a utilitarian and almost Machiavellian sense about him.
		Becket is played admirably by Richard Burton; Henry II is portrayed by Peter O'Toole.
		Whether Thomas Becket actually experienced a spiritual conversion that made him a strong champion of the church, or in fact saw the power of the church as a means to an end of dominating the country, we will perhaps never know.
	imdb.com /title/tt0057877 (1309 words)

	Becket : Becket (play)
		Becket or the Honor of God is a Tony Award-winning play written in French by Jean Anouilh.
		It is a (historically inaccurate) depiction of the conflict between Thomas Becket and King Henry II of England leading to Becket's murder in 1170.
		Having built his play on Becket's being a Saxon (when he was actually a Norman whose family was from near Rouen and called "Bequet" in French), Anouilh could not recast the play to accord with historical facts, so he decided to let it stand.
	www.fastload.org /be/Becket_(play).html (328 words)

	Thomas a Becket, Saint. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Becket himself, foreseeing the conflict that lay ahead, was reluctant to accept, but the king insisted, and, in 1162, Becket was ordained priest and consecrated archbishop of Canterbury.
		Becket rejected this claim and also persuaded the other bishops to attach the qualification “saving our order” to their assent to the king’s demand that they swear obedience to the (unspecified) “ancient customs” of the realm.
		In exile for the next six years, Becket did not receive the active support from Pope Alexander III for which he had hoped; the pope was too enmeshed in difficulties of his own to alienate the English king further.
	www.bartleby.com /65/th/ThomasaB.html (935 words)

	Thomas à Becket - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Becket as Chancellor enforced the king’s danegeld taxes, a traditional medieval land tax that was exacted from all landowners, including churches and bishoprics.
		Becket denied the right of the assembly to judge him, appealed to the pope, and, feeling that his life was too valuable to the Church to be risked, went into voluntary exile on November 2, embarking in a fishing-boat which landed him in France.
		Becket regarded himself as in full possession of all his prerogatives and desired to see his position enforced by the weapons of excommunication and interdict.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Thomas_%E0_Becket (1480 words)

	Thomas à Becket
		Becket was revered by the faithful throughout Europe as a martyr, and canonized by Alexander in 1173, while on July 12 of the following year in the midst of the Revolt of 1173-1174
		The absence of nightingalenightingales in Otford is also ascribed to Becket, who is said to have been so disturbed in his devotions by the song of a nightingale that he commanded that none should sing in the town ever again.
		In the town of Strood, also in Kent, Becket is said to have caused that the inhabitants of the town andmdash; and their descendants andmdash; be born with tails.
	www.territoriopc.com /eng/thomas__a_becket.php (1818 words)

	Thomas Becket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Becket regarded himself as in full possession of all his prerogatives and desired to see his position enforced by the weapons of excommunication and interdict.
		Becket was killed inside Canterbury Cathedral itself, in a spot near a door to the monastic cloister, the stairs into the crypt, and the stairs leading up into the quire of the cathedral, where the monks were chanting vespers.
		In the town of Strood, also in Kent, Becket is said to have caused that the inhabitants of the town and their descendants be born with tails.
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	BECKET
		The solemn excommunication scene, in which Becket catalogues the woeful consequences, civil and religious, which will befall a baron who has killed a priest, or any other poor soul so condemned, is a classic demonstration of the inextricable links of medieval church and state.
		Becket helps us to put flesh on several of those in the realm of the dead and even to identify with some of their religious and personal dilemmas.
		Becket, is based on Jean Anouilh's play of the same name.
	pirate.shu.edu /~wisterro/files/becket.htm (1999 words)

	Saint Thomas Becket (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Becket was a skillful administrator who have absolute support to Henry II's policy of 'unifying' Church and State largely by seeking to deprive the Church of the many concessions granted to it by his predecessor, King Stephen.
		Becket's determination to achieve martyrdom had borne fruit; for on Ash Wednesday 1173, at a church council at Westminster, the slain Archbishop was canonized and 29 December was designed a feast day in the liturgical calendar.
		Becket was born in 1118, in Normandy the son of an English merchant.
	www.jcanu.hpg.ig.com.br /history/h4dec/29becket.html (8289 words)

	Camp Becket Philosophy
		Becket allows fathers to become immersed in the camp culture - a culture in which the sons are the experts.
		Becket’s strong emphasis on the cabin group - eight boys and two staff members - is unmatched in most camps.
		The Becket system is based upon the belief that the most important aspect of camping is the small-group interactions which occur as a result of its program format.
	www.bccymca.org /becket/philosophy.htm (1778 words)

	Reviews of 'Murder in the Cathedral'
		The play may be a difficult read for those unfamiliar with Becket's life, and those unused to Eliot's poetically styled play.
		Throughout the first act, Becket is set upon by four temptors who reveal his fate to him, serving as a catalyst for readers to learn some of Becket's background and to know that he wasn't purely without fault.
		The most intriguing part of the play is when, after the brutal murder is completed, the knights turn to the audience and explain their reasons for killing Becket and why it was the right thing to do in an effort to preserve England.
	www.usingenglish.com /amazon/us/reviews/0156632772.html (840 words)

	Film Review: Becket: Medieval Church (Thomas Becket) Versus Medieval State (Henry II of England)
		Becket (1964) is a dangerous film in that it presents such a beautiful and convincing view of its time and period that we easily accept it as historical truth.
		The film, taken from a play, is based on the life of English saint and martyr Thomas Becket (played by Richard Burton), Archbishop of Canterbury at the time of his murder in 1170.
		Becket was both his vassal and his best friend (something the film shows well by giving us early scenes of the two of them whoring around in the odd peasant hut.
	medievalhistory.suite101.com /article.cfm/film_review__becket (660 words)

	Brno Studies in English - Vol. 1999, No. 1 (1999) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Throughout the play Becket becomes more independent, but his two characteristic features do not disappear: as a respectable scholar he defends himself and the Church rights admirably and is described as “ meek as a nun ”, as a proud and brave man who is aware of his power Becket is compared to a tiger (e.g.
		Becket has also a confidant, it is the Watson-like Herbert of Bosham with features of a sycophant, and again, it is hard to understand his strong attachment to his master.
		Becket is presented as a very headstrong man and he is frequently admonished by John of Salisbury, the scholar, clearly his superior in some respects.
	dkf.ics.muni.cz /~xvalicek/journal/ff_bse/vol2003num1/vol1999num1/11.html (5213 words)

	intro
		One of the felicities of having a play written by a priest, is that the author is able to enrich his characterizations by drawing on his professional understanding of sin, repentance, and redemption.
		Becket was killed on December 29, 1170, and earlier in the same year Henry II had allowed his eldest son Henry to be crowned king, so that at the time of the play England had two simultaneous sovereigns.
		In the play’s final scene (V.ii) we see them after the implications of their deed have sunk in, they are fully aware of their sinfulness.
	www.philological.bham.ac.uk /thomcant/intro.html (1862 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: `Cathedral's' Critical Mass
		Becket was slain in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170, supposedly at the order of Henry II, who later performed a dramatic penance for the deed.
		Becket recognizes and renounces his own desire for glory, and is then ready to die.
		Wade is very good at depicting the strength in seemingly mild men, and he can also project moral intelligence: His Becket is never histrionic, always austere and humble, a man on a quest to drive the last bit of rot from his soul.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/local/longterm/theater/reviews/murderinthecathedral.htm (616 words)

	MonkeyNotes Study Guide Summary-Murder In the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot-Free Book notes/Chapter Summary
		The play can be said to begin at the climax, for the tension and fear imposed by the state have reached the people at the lowest level.
		Becket opposes the King's thirst for power, as he tries to raise the standard of the Crown higher than that of the Pope.
		Becket informs them that his letters have been interrupted by spies and that his assassins have been waiting for an opportunity to kill him, like hungry hawks.
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	New Plays on Broadway \| TIME
		Though Henry and Becket are set squarely beside and then against each other, there is no vital force to the conjunction, or fire to the conflict.
		This is a troublesome task, for Becket's abrupt shift from worldling to ascetic, from Henry's helpful administrator to his hostile priest, needs probing; indeed, the whole unsimple man who suddenly found God needs probing.
		But the Becket whom a historian has dubbed "a great actor superbly living the parts he was called upon to play" seems far less than that, even with a great actor, Laurence Olivier, on hand to play him.
	www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,895025,00.html (706 words)

	Becket Leaves - Reviews - Becket or the Honor of God
		He was inspired by the account of Becket's conflict with Henry II given in Augustin Thierry's The Conquest of England by the Normans, which inaccurately portrayed Becket as a Saxon.
		Becket was first played in Paris in October 1959 and produced in New York in 1960.
		Henry sums it up at their final meeting, saying he's known Thomas "in the hunt, at the brothel, in war; both of us spending whole nights behind pots of wine; in the bed of the same girl sometimes..." Hunting and war are all right, but the rest is stretching it a bit.
	www.angelfire.com /pa4/becketleaves/becketleavesanouilh.html (2176 words)

	Red Rocks Community College Library - Plays, Play Adaptations, and Related Videos (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The play centers on the adventures and romantic exploits of two brothers, Joseph and Charles Surface: the former is moral, upright and well-respected; the latter is a dissipated, extravagant libertine.
		The play depicts the lives of a group on the estate of a retired professor, a pompous fellow who has returned, with his young second wife, to write his masterpiece.
		A dramatization of Henrik Ibsen's play of the same title, about a middle class family whose illusions of happiness and comfort are shattered by the arrival of a self-proclaimed truthteller.
	www.rrcc.edu /library/videos/progvid/playscat.htm (3447 words)

	ParentsWorld.com :: For All Types Of Single Parents
		Throughout the first act, Becket is set upon by four temptors who reveal his fate to him, serving as a catalyst for readers to learn some of Becket's background and to know that he wasn't purely without fault.
		When Becket refuses, the knights return and kill Thomas at the altar of the church, a death that he gladly accepts as a martyr for his Lord.
		The most intriguing part of the play is when, after the brutal murder is completed, the knights turn to the audience and explain their reasons for killing Becket and why it was the right thing to do in an effort to preserve England.
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	becket play vs history: anthropologytermpapers.com- anthropology term papers, anthropology essays, anthropology ...
		Although Shakespeare’s play Richard III is a historical play, Shakespeare was a playwright, not a historian.
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	Magill's Survey for Becket
		Becket contrives to save the girl from the King's lust by pretending that the wound he has actually received from her brother has been caused by the horses, and requesting her as his reward for protecting the King.
		Becket's aloofness includes even her; he says to her that he does not like being loved.
		Becket replies that he did as far as he was capable, but that it is the honor of God that he has truly started to love.
	www.realitymouse.com /otoole/articles/becket.html (1356 words)

	Waiting for Godot
		The purely comic aspect of the play involves traditional routines that come from the entire history of farce, from the Romans and the Italians, and the red-nosed clown of the modern circus.
		It's close adherence to the three unities is a clue to the play's dramaturgy.
		The despair in the play, which is never defined as such but which pervades all the lack of action and gives the play its metaphysical color, is the fact that the two tramps cannot not wait for Godot, and the corollary fact that he cannot come.
	www.theatrehistory.com /french/beckett002.html (1128 words)

	At Oto's - Thomas Becket - Dec. 21, 1118 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This homepage is in honour of Thomas Becket, who was born in London on Dec. 21,1118.
		Becket had become Archbishop of Canterbury in 1162, when Henry II had the brilliant idea of appointing one of his men, well, really it was the King's man, Primate of England.
		Becket, to save his hide, had to flee the country.
	www.gksdesign.com /atotos/becket.htm (404 words)

	Becket Arts Center of the Hilltowns - Youth Program
		for the Puppetry, Dance Together at the Pillow and Shakespeare in Becket workshops may be available (Scholarships are primarily for full-time Hilltown residents) use Scholarship Application and mail as early as possible to BAC, PO Box 286, Becket, MA 01223.
		Students enrolled in the Becket Recreation Camp who select one of the following two Visual Arts programs will be brought by their parents to the Becket Arts Center or the Becket Federation Church at 9:30am and after class (12:30-2:30pm) will finish their day at the Becket Federated Church with Camp staff.
		After learning the story of the play, students will rehearse short scenes from the play and then perform them for each other with minimal props and sound.
	www.becketartscenter.org /youth.htm (1190 words)

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