Becket (Sams, trans.)
Jeremy Sams
Becket (Hill trans.)
by Jean Anouilh, Lucienne Hill
Awards & Recognition
Tony Award
Winner! Four 1961 Tony® Awards, including Best Play Winner! 1961 Critics Circle Award, Best Play
Synopsis
Never have Anouilh’s characteristic intelligence and irony been employed with more telling effect than in this drama of the tragic relationship between King Henry of England and the introspective intellectual who had been his dearest friend, but who became his implacable enemy when intrigue raised him to the hierarchy of the church.
Press Reviews
"Anouilh's finest play since Antigone […] Splendid."
— The London Times
"Fine craftsmanship […] One of the finest feats of the kind."
— The Daily Telegraph
Publication
Becket (Hill trans.) is a play written by Jean Anouilh and published by Samuel French .
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