T.S Eliot most achieved drama written in verse describing the struggle for power between two friends....
The action of Murder in the Cathedral occurs in and around Canterbury Cathedral;
Part One takes place on December 2, 1170, the day that Archbishop Thomas Becket returned to England and twenty-seven days before his murder by four knights of King Henry II. When the play begins, a Chorus comprised of the Women of Canterbury huddle outside the cathedral, certain that something is about to happen but unable to articulate any details: “Some presage of an act / Which our eyes are compelled to witness, has forced our feet / Towards the cathedral.” They then describe their lives to the audience and these descriptions mark them as common people who fear any threat of change: “We try to keep our households in order,” they explain, but “Some malady is coming upon us.” Ultimately, they decide that “For us, the poor, there is no action, / But only to wait and witness.”