Download or read book The Sir Thomas More Circle written by Pearl Hogrefe and published by Urbana : University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1959 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part One analyzes and documents the main ideas which Sir Thomas More and his friends wished to use for the reform of society. These ideas dealt with nature and the law of nature, the bases of true nobility, religious reforms, education in general, and the education of women apropos love and marriage. Part Two is concerned with the expression of these same ideas in the drama connected with the More circle, either by printing or writing, and possibly by staging. [Book jacket].
Download or read book The Circle of Sir Thomas More written by Elizabeth Brooke Blackburn and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Holbein s Sir Thomas More written by Hilary Mantel and published by Frick Diptych. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminates one of Holbein's most famous portraits with a combination of scholarly scrutiny and fictional narrative.
Download or read book Tudor Jacobean Portraits written by Roy Strong and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Utopia written by Thomas More and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-03 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.
Download or read book The Thomas More Sir Circle a Program of Ideas and Their Impact on Secular Drama written by Hogrefe, Pearl and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Sir Thomas More written by William Roper and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life and Illustrious Martyrdom of Sir Thomas More written by Thomas Stapleton and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1588, the year of the Spanish Armada, Thomas Stapleton sat down to write the book Tres Thomae; his subject was the life and works of St. Thomas the Apostle, St. Thomas of Canterbury, and Sir Thomas More. He wrote it in Latin (as More had done with his Utopia) since a knowledge of English was a rare accomplishment among European scholars and readers. Apart from its entertainment value as an account of More's life, the book is also a document of great importance; his list of sources is impressive since it includes many of the exiled members of More's circle from whom he gathered the information treasured in their memories. Most valuable of all was the collection of letters preserved by John Harris, More's secretary; from these, Stapleton gives us more than thirty letters or extracts from letters not to be found elsewhere. Apart from such documentary evidence, the book also gives us the recollections of those who were intimate members of More's household; it records the reputation Thomas More had gained within a half century of his death and it emphasizes the remarkable place that he had achieved in the popular mind even before any written account of his life was available.The fascination of the life of a man who preferred to obey the law of God rather than the command of a king has not diminished with the passage of time. That such a life should be the subject of awards for its portrayal on stage and screen is not only a testimony to the incomparable artistry of an actor and a playwright; it is, as well, an acknowledgement of (in the words with which Stapleton brings his book to a close), the admiration of modern man for the life, the character, the achievements, and the glorious martyrdom of that noble and illustrious man, Sir Thomas More.
Download or read book The Shakspere Signatures and Sir Thomas More written by Sir Granville George Greenwood and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Humanist Drama of the Sir Thomas More Circle written by Richard A. Pacholski and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Man For All Seasons written by Robert Bolt and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Man for All Seasons dramatises the conflict between King Henry VIII and Sir Thomas More. It depicts the confrontation between church and state, theology and politics, absolute power and individual freedom. Throughout the play Sir Thomas More's eloquence and endurance, his purity, saintliness and tenacity in the face of ever-growing threats to his beliefs and family, earn him status as one of modern drama's greatest tragic heroes. The play was first staged in 1960 at the Globe Theatre in London and was voted New York's Best Foreign Play in 1962. In 1966 it was made into an Academy Award-winning film by Fred Zinneman starring Paul Scofield."A Man for All Seasons is a stark play, sparse in its narrative, sinewy in its writing, which confirms Mr Bolt as a genuine and solid playwright, a force in our awakening theatre." (Daily Mail)
Download or read book Thomas More written by Richard Marius and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the centuries, biographers of Thomas More have always praised him and made him an example for their own times. He was a man for all seasons. Truly, he was a Renaissance man with the contradictions such praise imposes on a towering figure. In Richard Marius's authoritative and engaging portrait, Sir Thomas More, the martyr and brilliant public figure, is a lesson for our season.
Download or read book Sir Thomas More written by William Shakespeare and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of Sir Thomas More is the first to bring the play into the context of a major Shakespeare series, to provide a substantial critical analysis, and to offer a comprehensive modern stage history. The introduction deals with issues such as the strange involvement of the anti-Catholic spy-hunter Anthony Munday as chief dramatist, the place of Sir Thomas More as a Catholic martyr in Protestant late Elizabethan culture, and the play's representation of a multi-cultural London.The text itself, supported by a searching and detailed commentary, adopts a distinctive presentation that enables readers to keep track of the manuscript and the hands that produced it, whilst engaging with the play as a fascinating theatrical piece. Sir Thomas More deals with matters so controversial that it may never have reached performance on stage. The authors' determination to deal with rioting and religious politics led to a play that is compelling in its own right but also intriguing as a document of what could, and could not, be articulated in the early modern public theatre. Surviving only as a manuscript text on which Shakespeare was thought to have worked, it can be considered to be the most important play manuscript of the period, owing to its highly complex witness to collaboration between dramatists and to censorship.
Download or read book A Man for All Seasons written by Robert Bolt and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 1996 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This play charts the dramatic events leading to the execution of Sir Thomas More in 1535 and has been a modern stage classic since its first production in 1960. The author's previous plays include 'Flowering Cherry' and 'State of Revolution'.
Download or read book The Elizabethan Theatre and The Book of Sir Thomas More written by Scott McMillin and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pursued across the globe by ruthless National Security Agency operatives, David and Rachel struggle to piece together the truth behind Project Trinity and the enormous power it could unleash upon the world. As constant danger deepens their intimacy, Rachel realizes the key to Trinity lies buried in David's disturbed mind. But Trinity's clock is ticking ..." "Mankind is being held hostage by a machine that cannot be destroyed. Its only hope - a terrifying chess game between David and the Trinity computer, with the cities of the world as pawns. But what are the rules? How human is the machine? Can one man and woman change the course of history? Man's future hangs in the balance, and the price of failure is extinction."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Sir Thomas More Or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society written by Robert Southey and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...[A] calm exposition of [Southey's] mature social and political convictions: rejection of the Catholic claims and of constitutional reform, support for high taxation to redistribute wealth, and so on. The conversations are conducted with the ghost of Sir Thomas More, whose Utopia was a remote ancestor of pantisocracy. They are set in the neighbourhood of Keswick, and the beauty of the countryside tempers the generally gloomy tone of the conversation, as does the quiet of his splendid library." -- DNB.
Download or read book The Century of Sir Thomas More written by Benjamin Orange Flower and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
