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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.
"A Man for All Seasons," a play written by Robert Bolt, retells the historic events surrounding Sir Thomas More, the Chancellor of England who remained silent regarding Henry VIII's divorce.
A Man for all Seasons plot summary, character breakdowns, context and analysis, and performance video clips.
In 1966 the play was adapted into a multiple-Academy Award-winning film with a screenplay written by Bolt and starring Paul Scofield as Sir Thomas More. Read a full play summary, and in-depth character analysis of Sir Thomas More, and explanations of important quotes from A Man for All Seasons.
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 ...
Meet the original Broadway cast of A Man for All Seasons on Broadway, and find out who was in the Original Cast, what parts they played and more.
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Robert Bolt’s play A Man for All Seasons presents a “hero of the self” whose unwavering integrity collides with King Henry VIII’s egoistic drive to wrench personal salvation and political permanence for the Tudor line from an unwilling, because politically cornered, Pope.
