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Summary. This tragic historical drama offers a brilliant portrait of Sir Thomas More in his last years as Lord Chancellor of England during the reign of Henry VIII. When Henry fails to obtain papal approval for a divorce from Catherine of Aragon to marry Anne Boleyn, he mandates his subjects to sign an “Act of Supremacy” making him both ...
A Man for All Seasons is a play by Robert Bolt based on the life of Sir Thomas More. An early form of the play had been written for BBC Radio in 1954, and a one-hour live television version starring Bernard Hepton was produced in 1957 by the BBC, [1] but after Bolt's success with The Flowering Cherry, he reworked it for the stage.
The Basic Plot of 'A Man for All Seasons'. Shortly after the death of Cardinal Wolsey, Sir Thomas More—a wealthy lawyer and loyal subject of King Henry VIII —accepts the title of Chancellor of England. With that honor comes an expectation: The king expects More to sanction his divorce and subsequent marriage to Anne Boleyn.
The intrigue surrounding the plot to secure the divorce and More’s subsequent persecution is the basis of A Man for All Seasons. Narrated by a man identified only as Common Man (who also plays a number of ensemble parts), the play follows More as he is confronted by antagonistic forces like the powerful Cardinal Wolsey and the opportunistic ...
William Roper, suitor to Margaret More, is a young man who swings from a passionate Churchman to passionate Lutheran—and back again. More accepts his bid for Margaret’s hand when Roper returns to the Church, but chides him for anchoring to his principles, but moving the anchor “when the weather turns nasty.”.
A Man for All Seasons, a play by English playwright Robert Bolt, was first performed in 1960.The play is a fictionalized account of the life of Sir Thomas More, a 16th-century English lawyer, statesman, and author of Utopia who was executed for treason after refusing to take an oath acknowledging King Henry VIII as the head of the Church of England.
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Simon, John. "Play Reviews: A Man for All Seasons." In Theater Arts, Vol. 46, no. 2, February, 1962, pp. 10-11. A favorable review suggesting that although the play is limited by attempting too ...
