Anouilh, Jean (Vol. 8) - Becket
BECKET
Jesse C. Gatlin, Jr. (essay date 1965)
SOURCE: "Becket and Honor: A Trim Reckoning," in Modern Drama, Vol. 8, No. 3, December, 1965, pp. 277-83.
[In the following essay, Gatlin traces the evolving meaning of the concept of honor in Becket.]
What is honor? A word. What is in that word honor? What is that honor? Air. A trim reckoning! … Honor is a mere scutcheon.
Falstaff in Henry IV, Part I
Honor travels in a strait so narrow,
Where one but goes abreast.
ULYSSES in Troilus and Cressida
Jean Anouilh uses the phrase "The Honor of God" as the sub-title of his play Becket. In the English translation of the play by Lucienne Hill, the word "honor" appears more than twenty times, spoken by a variety of...
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