Another playwright, Anthony Munday, wrote the bulk of the play, about the life of Henry VIII's chancellor Sir Thomas More. Shakespeare was apparently called in to add a single scene to the middle ...

Catholic bishops and fair-minded historians in England protested against the inaccurate portrayal of Sir Thomas ... for Jane’s hand in marriage. Following the death of Jane, More also treated ...

“Employ me,” Richard Rich begs Sir Thomas More in a powerful scene from the ... Why not be a teacher? You’d be a fine teacher. Perhaps a great one.” “If I was, who would know it?” ...

Hans Holbein the Younger's oil painting of Sir Thomas More ... on the one hand, and what we would now call "regulatory design", on the other, that distinguished More's inventive text.

The words, spoken by the character of Sir Thomas More, a famous advisor to Henry VIII, form part of Shakespeare's only surviving handwritten script, The Book of Sir Thomas More. The play is one of ...

Yet Sir Thomas More’s Utopia, written in 1516, hasn’t been all that widely available. Sure, you can find it on the internet if you look hard enough, but this marks the first time that you can ...

In the BBC's adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, Sir Thomas More - traditionally viewed as a man of principle - is recast as a ruthless schemer with blood on his hands Anton Lesser as Thomas ...