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He was a Cambridge fellow I i think. Another convert was a high flying student of his, Marshall Mcluhan. P. M. David Boyd <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >http://www.timesandstar.co.uk/news/people/workington-born-woman-reaches-100-1.545413?referrerPath=news/people > > > >Mrs Bethell died last year, aged 102, so survived her late husband by 56 years! > >- she certainly got a good deal from her Teachers Pension Scheme. > > > >F.R. Leavis during the 1940s in Scrutiny very savagely attacked Bethell - suspect he was a bit of a psychopath, who had feelings of hate towards avowed Christians such as Bethell (although he seems to have exempted T.S. Eliot from his usual venom.) > > > > > >On 27 September 2012 17:03, Chokh Raj <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >Thanks, David. I've requested a copy of Shakespeare & The Popular Dramatic Tradition. I look forward to reading the book, as well as Eliot's introduction to it. > > >As for the movie version of Murder in the Cathedral, suggested by Peter, one might view the film at the following link: > > >http://mubi.com/films/murder-in-the-cathedral > > >CR > > >From: David Boyd <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 9:35 AM >Subject: Re: TS Eliot: Murder in the Cathedral > > >This Shakespeare scholar probably influenced Martin Browne; Eliot etc > > > > http://www.amazon.com/Shakespeare-The-Popular-Dramatic-Tradition/dp/B000O8BQ38 > >On 27 September 2012 05:23, P <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >I agree totally. It very full of resonances, much more so than TWL. >TWL resonates only horizontally with sequences of time. MITC does that but also resonates out of time with all kinds of spirituality. It is a joy to direct, which I have done -- a truly REAL play. It has perfect continuity with the Christian spiritual tradition. > >It presents that tradition I'm a radically new way. //Read the revision made for the movie version.// > > >Peter > > >Chokh Raj <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >Happened to be browsing it at the following link: > > >http://books.google.com/books?id=lc3krClq6bEC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false > > >There is an inexhaustible quality about the play that outlasts years of reading it. > > >CR > > >From: Chokh Raj <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 11:19 PM >Subject: TS Eliot: Murder in the Cathedral > > >Murder in the Cathedral > > >--- > > >"Destiny waits in the hand of God, shaping the still un- > > shapen: > > I have seen these things in a shaft of sunlight." > > >--- > > >An exceedingly powerful treatment of a momentous subject. There is a compelling poetic intensity that grips your imagination from first to last. A la Sophocles and Shakespeare. > > >CR > > > > > > >