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[Eliot, the temporal power and the spiritual one. With the translation of «Murder in the Cathedral» and its original text] Murder in the Cathedral was written by Eliot in 1935 and represented the same year in Canterbury. The chief character is the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Beckt, for a long time Chancellor of the King of England, Henry the Second. After a good friendship in the political questions, they didn't accord on the relation between spiritual and temporal power. The spiritual power, from the point of view of Beckt, resigned as Chancellor of State, was the Pope's power. I.e., a power that first is of God and then of Pope, a power that is higher of temporal power, a power that is the supreme guide for State and Church. Beckt dies on December 29th, 1170. Four Knights kill him by their swords, in the name of King. So the temporal power, in spite of Middle Ages, triumphs on the spiritual power. Dante and Shakespeare are still far-off. The Chorus, an another important character, expression of the poor people, closes the poetical drama with an invocation to God, Christ and Beckt.

[Willian B. Yeats. The Aesthetics of Politics]. In «The Lady of the Lake», by Gioacchino Rossini, Helen names «umíle» her shelter from the dawn to the evening shadows. In Yeats, humility is not known in its fullness. He sings the Celtic hero Cuchulain, tied to a stone, as Christ on the cross. Christ is the Redeemer of the original sin. In the Easter Rising, Cuchulain is the Redeemer of Eire-Ireland from British rule. Both devoted to justice. The justice in politics. The justice in law. The justice in moral rights. The justice in Yeats's relationship with Maud Gonne. The justice as a cross. The justice as a rose in the heart. These are the fundamental ideas explored in this work. Is Finn again awake? There is another Troy to burn?