... for a modern poetic drama.The effectiveness of 'the Rock'choruses ensured that the device would become an important feature of 'Murder in the Cathedral',although in the later the effects were more varied and dramatic. The Canterbury Festival had begun in 1928 with John Masefield's 'The Coming of Christ'.Canterbury was not only the arch-diocese of the country ;it was the most ancient Christian shrine in the land ,santified by the 'hooly blisful man whose cult ... Thomas's exercise in self-analysis.For that was the point of the Festival;the ordinary human response to the exceptional event...

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... and a notable trait that originated from it was self consciousness. This led to experiments and the refinement of form, along with the use of techniques that attracted attention to the development and materials exercised in forming a poem, painting, novel, building etc. Rejecting the ideology of realism, modernism makes work of the past by the enlistment of rewriting, reprise, recapitulation, incorporation, re- interpretation, revision and parody. Redoing something that has been done ... there are two sides, Gil is stuck almost in between the conflicting spheres. In conclusion, the nove...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate