the character of St. Thomas of Canterbury a living reality for the thousands of theatre-goers to T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral, now announces that he has written a biography of Becket.
Coming from one who " lived the life," Mr. Speaight's book is waited with great expectations." His publisher (Longmans) describes his work as a penetrating estimate of that epic struggle between the spiritual and temporal jurisdictions that will suggest analogies in more recent times.
