Editing Becket (section)

{{Short description|Theater play by Jean Anouilh}}
{{about|the 1959 play||Becket (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox play
| name           = Becket
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| writer         = [[Jean Anouilh]]
| characters     = {{ubl|Thomas Becket|King Henry II|King Louis VII|Cardinal Zambelli|Pope Alexander III|Bishop Folliot|Brother John|Empress Matilda|Eleanor of Aquitaine|Prince Henry|Prince John}}
| setting        = 12th-century Europe
| premiere       = 8 October 1959
| place          = [[Theatre Montparnasse]]
| orig_lang      = [[French language|French]]
| subject        = [[Becket controversy]] 
| genre          = [[Historical drama]]
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| original title = ''Becket ou l'honneur de Dieu'' (literally "Becket, or the honour of god")
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'''''Becket or The Honour of God''''' ({{langx|fr|Becket ou l'honneur de Dieu}}), often shortened to '''''Becket''''', is a 1959 [[stage play]] written in [[French language|French]] by [[Jean Anouilh]]. It is a depiction of the [[Becket controversy|conflict]] between [[Thomas Becket]] and King [[Henry II of England]] leading to Becket's assassination in 1170.<ref name="Pfeiffer 2011 e621">{{cite web | last=Pfeiffer | first=Lee | title=Becket: film by Glenville [1964] | website=Encyclopedia Britannica | date=February 11, 2011 | url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Becket-film-by-Glenville | access-date=March 31, 2024}}</ref> It contains many historical inaccuracies, which the author acknowledged.<ref name="Tunzelmann 2009 n781">{{cite web | last=Tunzelmann | first=Alex von | title=Becket: forking Normans and a not so turbulent priest | website=The Guardian | date=January 1, 2009 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/jan/01/reel-history-becket |quote= Thomas Becket was a Norman, just like Henry II. Writer Jean Anouilh knew this, but he thought Norman-Saxon tensions made a good story.| access-date=March 31, 2024}}</ref><ref name="Clements 2007 w620">{{cite web | last=Clements | first=Warren | title=Film's factual errors great fodder for O'Toole's anecdotes | website=The Globe and Mail | date=May 18, 2007 | url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/films-factual-errors-great-fodder-for-otooles-anecdotes/article1326356/ | quote=Anouilh wanted to capture a personality clash within a theatre troupe he worked with, but couldn't find a way to frame the conflict on stage until he visited Canterbury. "He read about five sentences [concerning Becket's clash with Henry] giving a brief outline of what happened, and said" ... "I've got the plot. And that's all the research he did. Hence, many, many factual errors." |access-date=March 31, 2024}}</ref><ref name="Karnoor 2016 i005">{{cite web | last=Karnoor | first=Maithreyi | title=Irony cast in stone | website=The Hindu | date=June 23, 2016 | url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/Irony-cast-in-stone/article14397063.ece | access-date=March 31, 2024}}</ref>