The first scholarly biography in more than 100 years of the man who immortalised the Tudor court does not disappoint
Much of what we know, or think we know, about the court of Henry VIII comes directl…
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7 months ago
Church bids to exhume head of Catholic martyr Sir Thomas More - five centuries after it was put on spike when he was executed ○
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Sir Thomas More was beheaded at Tower Hill in 1535 after he refused to acknowledge the monarch as head of the church following Henry's break from Rome.
12 months ago
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: Thomas More is depicted very differently in Robert Bolt's A Man For All Seasons and Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall. Which is closest to the truth? ○
Depictions of Sir Thomas More in these works (pictured, Martin Shaw as More in Robert Bolt's play) are very different, taking contrasting views of his character, beliefs and historical role.
13 months ago
A Man for All Seasons review – creaky but moving portrait of quiet heroism ○
Theatre Royal Bath
While this 1960 play has been overtaken by faster-moving tales of Tudor chicanery, Martin Shaw is compelling as Thomas More
Among the abounding villains and backstabbers of the Tudor…
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