The riot was brought to a temporary halt when the charismatic Under-sheriff of London, Sir Thomas More, confronted the crowd ... The inserted scene, in the original holograph that scholars call “Hand ...

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 ...

Your point [about the rule of law] is well taken, and I would imagine a Sir Thomas More of modern sensibilities would likely agree with you. But I am not sure he is the shining example of ...