Abstract
THE OBSERVATION BY ARISTOTLE (Poetics, ix) that dealing with authentic historical incidents does not necessarily impair the artistic creativity of a poet or a dramatist is confirmed in the treatment accorded the relations between Henry II of England and Thomas a Becket by four dramatists within the last eighty years. Each of the four-Alfred Tennyson, T. S. Eliot, Jean Anouilh, and Christopher Fry-deals with the same body of historical facts ("specific events," to use the Aristotelian expression), but manipulates them in a different manner reflecting the operation of his artistic inventiveness
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