It is the story of an impossible friendship between two men: one who loves, or says he loves, the other who doesn't, or says he can't. One tryrannizes but is always rebuffed; the other gives but never yields. [...] The erstwhile dissolute playboy turns into an earnest priest, and the anti-clerical monarch ends lonelier than a monk in an empty palace.
André Aciman in his preface to Becket by J. Anouilh

















