Seven years since the [protagonist] left us," just before a herald announces his return.
Early on in this play, both the chorus and a priest remark, "Seven years and the summer has gone / Seven years since the [protagonist] left us," just before a herald announces his return. The protagonist fears for his life, but ignores proposals on ways to save himself offered by four tempters. Days after delivering a Christmas sermon in the Interlude, the protagonist is confronted by Reginald Fitz Urse and three other knights, who address the audience in prose and declare their loyalty to England after committing the bloody title act while the protagonist is at the altar. For ten points, name this T.S. Eliot drama about the assassination of Thomas a Becket.
Early on in this play, both the chorus and a priest remark, "Seven years and the summer has gone /
{Murder in the Cathedral}