The complete online text of Becket and other plays by Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson.

More than any other Victorian writer, Alfred, Lord Tennyson has seemed the embodiment of his age, both to his contemporaries and to modern readers. In his own day he was said to be—with Queen Victoria and Prime Minister William Gladstone—one...

More than any other Victorian writer, Tennyson has seemed the embodiment of his age, both to his contemporaries and to modern readers. In his own day he was said to be--with Queen Victoria and Gladstone--one of the three most famous living persons, a rep...

Alfred Lord Tennyson has the dubious honor of being one of the most critically disputed great poets in the English language. The very term "Tennysonian" has taken on, in many quarters, the negative complaint of sentimentality, conservatism, too-easy rhym...

(THEATER ROYAL, HAYMARKET; 877 SEATS; 40 [pounds sterling] ($74) TOP) LONDON A Stanhope Prods. in association with Fast Track Pictures presentation of a play in two acts by Jean Anouilh, adapted by Frederic Raphael and Stephen Raphael. Directed by John Caird. Sets...

The production of Jean Anouilh's "Becket" that opened last weekend at the Olney Theatre is mounted with sumptuous dignity. James Kronzer's set is a candlelit crypt of massive columns and arches through which the characters pace solemnly as they debate. As usual when Jim...