Date of Award

5-1937

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

Literatures, Languages, and Cultures

First Advisor

Thomas P. Whelan

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is to discover how con­sistent the treatment of the character of Thomas a Becket by three authors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- Douglas Jerrold, Alfred L. Tennyson, and T. S. Eliot--is with the historical figure of Saint Thomas.

The method pursued in discovering this is first, to establish the historical figure of Thomas through the use of authoritative historical sources and second, to discuss how his figure is revealed in the plays, "Thomas a Becket" by Douglas Jerrold, "Becket" by Alfred Tennyson and "Murder in the Cathedral" by T. S. Eliot.

The following books were especially helpful in af­fording me material for the historical background of the man and the age, Hilaire Belloc's "History of England" (v.2), Sidney Dark's "Saint Thomas of Cantebury," William H. Hutton's "Thomas Becket" and Mary Ward's "English Way.•

Comments

A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts of Marquette University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Philosophy

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