“Employ me,” Richard Rich begs Sir Thomas More in a powerful scene from the film A Man for All Seasons, the 1966 Oscar winner for “Best Picture.” Many young people have said the same, especially after ...
This essay explores the historical and generic basis for a tragic reading of The Book of Sir Thomas More. The early modern period’s dominant forms of tragedy (such as revenge tragedy and historical ...
On this date in history: In 1536, Anne Boleyn, the second of King Henry VIII's six wives and mother of Queen Elizabeth I, was beheaded. In 1588, the Spanish Armada, assembled to invade England, set ...
Aside from a few signatures, only one example of William Shakespeare's handwriting survives, a speech from around 1600 that imagines Sir Thomas More addressing the rage of an anti-migrant crowd in ...
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On this date in history: In 1536, Anne Boleyn, the second of King Henry VIII's six wives and mother of Queen Elizabeth I, was beheaded. In 1588, the Spanish Armada, assembled to invade England, set ...
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