Becket by Jean Anouilh

Becket

Jean Anouilh with Frederic Raphael (Translator), Stephen Raphael (Translator)

111 pages first pub 1959 (editions)

fiction historical play challenging reflective sad slow-paced
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Anouilh's classic historical tale of conflict between church and state, in a major new translation by Frederic and Stephen Raphael In Becket, Anouilh presents the history of England under Henry II as if it was France under German occupation. As He...

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