Murder in the Cathedral

Eliot’s “Murder in the Cathedral,” spinning Eliot’s observation about morality into a squall of questions about ethics and motives.

Eliot’s “Murder in the Cathedral.”

Asner made his stage debut at the University of Chicago as Thomas Becket in “Murder in the Cathedral,” but dropped out of college after two years.

Eliot is best known for such poems as The Waste Land and The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock and plays like Murder in the Cathedral.

Eliot’s “Murder in the Cathedral,” a priest says of unfolding events, “Let the wheel turn.”