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Thomas More

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40 days ago

The Uses of Utopia by Joad Raymond Wren review – can the ideal society ever exist? ⊕⊕

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

This fascinating intellectual history of imagined paradises takes us from Thomas More to Ursula K Le Guin

By definition, utopia cannot exist. In 1516, educated readers of Thomas More’s Utopia would ha…

8 months ago

Holbein: Renaissance Master by Elizabeth Goldring review – a magnificent portrait of the artist ⊖

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

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…

12 months ago

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.

17 months ago

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.

1 years ago

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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