... Thomas Stearns Eliot was born on September 26, 1888, in St. Louis, MO. He grew up in St. Louis and attended Smith Academy. In 1906, he left Missouri to attend Harvard University. Eliot left the United States in 1910 to further his studies at the Sorbonne in France, after earning an undergraduate and masters ... church, a fight that will culminate under Henry VIII with the creation of the Church of England. The short play has two scenes, one about a month before the murder, when Beckett returned to Canterbury from the 7 years of exile in France, and the actual murder itself. As an interlu...

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