BECKET AND OTHER PLAYS

BY

ALFRED LORD TENNYSON, POET LAUREATE




CONTENTS


BECKET
THE CUP
THE FALCON
THE PROMISE OF MAY



BECKET


TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR, THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EARL OF SELBORNE.

MY DEAR SELBORNE,

_To you, the honoured Chancellor of our own day, I dedicate this
dramatic memorial of your great predecessor;--which, altho' not
intended in its present form to meet the exigencies of our modern
theatre, has nevertheless--for so you have assured me--won your