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#OTD in 1905.
The English actor-manager Sir Henry Irving collapses in his hotel, while playing Thomas Becket on tour in Bradford, dying soon afterwards. 'Into thy hands, O Lord, into thy hands', and though he lived for an hour or so longer he never spoke again" were his last words.
Becket and other plays by Baron Alfred Tennyson at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9162#books #literature #theatre
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