...This chapter focuses on ‘The Book of Sir Thomas More’ and the evidence that three pages of its manuscript are written by Shakespeare. The play ran into official censorship difficulties, and was judged offensive as a result of contemporary feeling and the violent manifestation of that feeling...

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... but specific conceptual and practiced boundaries around it. In particular, playing celebrated itself as distinctly innovative, in contrast to a widespread cultural bias against novelty. Readings of the moral play New Custom and of the later Sir Thomas More, which looks back at earlier kinds of performance like...

... it describes. This chapter speculates about some possible consequences of the shadowy presence of the conversos within two texts—Sir Thomas More and Robert Wilson's The Three Ladies of London—that have a proximal relation to The Merchant of Venice. Alpers Paul...

... were made against Cardinal Wolsey as chancellor (1529), but they were defended by his successor Sir Thomas More (who had signed the complaints) at a dinner with the judges. Further complaints were made against Chancellor Wriothesley (1547) for subverting the common law and introducing Roman law. Much...

... Origen circumcision Catechism covenant Keyser Merten de Joye George William Tyndale Sir Thomas More Bible translation polemics martyrdom William Tyndale (1494?–1536) was not the first man to translate the Bible into English, as John Wycliff (1320–84) with his fellow Lollard scholars had done...

... estimate is made of his income and of the nature of his working arrangement with the company discussed, compared with those of other actor/playwrights at this time. The possibility that he might have boosted this by freelance work (including input to ‘Sir Thomas More’) is also considered. Burbage Cuthbert...

...This chapter focuses on English pride in learned women by 1550: learned women at the early Tudor court. It discusses Erasmus and the household of Sir Thomas More; the development of companionate marriage in both Catholic and Protestant families; and the Seymour sisters and the political...

..., narratable. We might also here consider the fact that Shakespeare’s work on Sir Thomas More postdates Hamlet; my reading of the plays resists a developmental narrative. 191 Second, the messenger’s speech reveals how custom, the repetition of the past, is itself inherent...

... revolutionary as prisoner Dekker Thomas Southwell Robert devotional literature Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation Sir Thomas More De Tristitia Christi martyrdom John Bunyan Little Tretys Chaucer George Ashby Sir Francis Wortley All writers (and scholars) are recluses; they spend the bulk...

..., but lawyers who want to ‘get round’ the terms of a contract or a statutory prescription must play expansively with the proper sense of words. The Book of Sir Thomas More supplies an excellent example of the early modern predilection for playfulness in forensic contexts. 32 The second scene...

... Puritanism bonae literae imagination Reformation common reader lies Sir Thomas More William Tyndale Cornelius Agrippa When Camden spoke of the purpose of education as ‘the training up of children in good literature’, he was echoing Quintilian, and what he meant by ‘literature’ was not quite what we...

... collaborator—a tendency that makes his literary craft simultaneously more self-advertising and more reducible to conventional literary norms. These claims are established and explored through a series of plays in which co-authorship is likely or certain, including Sir Thomas More, Henry VIII...

...This article discusses the control and regulation of playhouses during Shakespeare's career; The Book of Sir Thomas More; and Jacobean censorship. Elizabethan censorship in the decades preceding and coinciding with Shakespeare's early career evolved in response to the rapid growth...

... Kyd Thomas Nashe George Peele Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet William Shakespeare Sir Thomas More During the first eight or ten years of Shakespeare’s career he wrote a series of more or less closely interrelated plays based on English history drawing heavily, as I have said...

... the Chamberlain’s and Admiral’s Men as privileged companies, restricted to nominated playhouses, and answerable to Tilney, whose key role is confirmed. An examination of his income from licensing. The censorship of Shakespeare’s Richard II and of Sir Thomas More in the context...

...This chapter explores the relationship between the collaboratively written play text of Sir Thomas More and the play’s central scenes of protest, which depict London citizens rising up against the city’s alien population in the famous May Day riots of 1517. Even as the play retells...

... The conscience interiority Middle Ages Reformation St. Augustine Confessions Henry VIII Sir Thomas More Martin Luther James Hales Stephen Gardiner An exchange between judge James Hales and Marian chancellor Stephen Gardiner illustrates the fraught situation surrounding matters of conscience...

... to Lord Strange’s Men are 2 and 3 Henry VI, Richard III, and the manuscripts of John a Kent and John a Cumber and Sir Thomas More. The chapter then discusses the lost Rose plays and other candidates for attribution to Lord Strange’s Men...