Becket (disambiguation)
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Becket is a play about Thomas Becket, written in French by Jean Anouilh.
Becket may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
[edit]- Becket (Tennyson play), an 1884 play by Alfred Tennyson
- Becket (1924 film), a silent film based on the play by Alfred Tennyson
- Becket (1964 film), based on a play by Jean Anouilh
People
[edit]- Samuel Beckett (1906–1989), Irish novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet
- Thomas Becket (1115–1170), martyred Archbishop of Canterbury and Catholic saint
- Welton Becket (1902–1969), American architect
Other uses
[edit]- Becket, Massachusetts, United States, a town
- The Becket School, a secondary school in Nottingham, England
- Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C.
- Becket, a U-shaped fastener used to hold up a pulley
See also
[edit]- Beckett (disambiguation)
- Becket bend, a type of knot joining another line
- Becket hitch, a type of knot connecting another object