This is part of the only surviving play script to contain The play is about the life of Sir Thomas More, the Tudor lawyer and polymath who was sentenced to death for refusing to recognise Henry VIII as Supreme Head of the Church in England.
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Shakespeare’s additions include 147 lines in the middle of the action, in which More is called on to address an More relies on human empathy to make his point: if the rioters were suddenly banished to a foreign land, they would become Tilney’s instructions to the authors can be seen in the margin of f. 3r (the first page shown here):Leave out the insurrection wholly and the cause thereof, and begin with Sir Thomas More at the Mayor’s sessions, with a report afterwards of his good service done being Sheriff of London upon a mutiny against the Lombards – only by a short report, and not otherwise, at your own perils. Their women are not married before eighteen, nor their men before two-and-twenty, and if any of them run into forbidden embraces before marriage they are severely punished, and the privilege of marriage is denied … Among the several recent More biographers, Marius is the best qualified, having served as an editor of the Yale Complete Works of Saint Thomas More. After the Queen’s death in 1603, Shakespeare was brought in to revise the script, along with three other playwrights.
More was an exceedingly complex person whose personality is very, very difficult to capture.
Juli) sowie der römisch-katholischen Kirche (Gedenktag 22. ‘The Book of Sir Thomas More’ is the only surviving literary manuscript in Shakespeare’s hand.
Adrian S Edwards surveys the 16th- and 17th-century sources for Shakespeare’s works – the few surviving pages of Shakespearean manuscript, the quarto editions of his plays and poems, and the large folio editions of his collected works – and gives an overview of the British Library’s holdings. The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr: sketches and original artworkSean's Red Bike by Petronella Breinburg, illustrated by Errol LloydThe fight for women’s rights is unfinished business
engagement customs in Thomas More's Utopia. The work was initially written by Anthony Munday between 1596 and 1601.
He wrote Utopia, published in 1516, about the political system of an imaginary island state.
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Eric Rasmussen and Ian De Jong investigate the subversive potential of Renaissance theatre. See all books authored by Thomas More, including Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia, and Three Early Modern Utopias: Thomas More, Utopia; Francis Bacon, New Atlantis; Henry Neville, The Isle of Pines, and more on ThriftBooks.com. Thomas More’s most popular book is Utopia. Here Andrew Dickson describes how the scene Shakespeare wrote for the play contains a moving plea for the plight of immigrants.
Juni), in der er als Patron der Regierenden und Politiker proklamiert wurde. To add more books, Three Early Modern Utopias: Utopia / New Atlantis / The Isle of PinesThe Sadness of Christ and Final Prayers and BenedictionsThe Four Last Things: The Supplication of Souls; A Dialogue on ConscienceBe Merry in God: 60 Reflections from the Writings of Saint Thomas MoreThe Tower Works, Devotional Writings: Complete Works of St. Thomas MoreGiovanni Pico Della Mirandola: His Life by His Nephew Giovanni Francesco Pico, Also Three of His Letters, His Interpretation of Psalm XVI; His TwelveThe Political Strategy and Philosophy Reader Including (Complete and Unabridged): Plato's Republic, Sun Tzu's the Art of War, Machiavelli's the Prince, Thomas More's Utopia and Hobbes' LeviathanThe Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 9, The ApologyThe Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 3, Part II, Latin PoemsThe Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 5, Responsio ad Lutherum