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Back at More’s home in London’s Chelsea district, the king is set to arrive, but More is nowhere to be found. After fretting over his absence, the family eventually finds him busy at vespers (evening prayers). When the king arrives, all are on their best behavior, and More comes off as the most flattering of all.
- Robert Bolt
- 1960
About A Man for All Seasons. The dramatization of Sir Thomas More’s historic conflict with Henry VIII—a compelling portrait of a courageous man who died for his convictions and a modern classic that ”challenges the mind, and, in the end, touches the heart” (New York Times). Sir Thomas More—the brilliant nobleman, lawyer, humanist ...
- Robert Bolt
- Paperback
Full Title A Man for all Seasons. Author Robert Bolt. Type of work Play. Genre Historical drama; satire (a literary work that ridicules human vices and follies) Language English. Time and place written England, 1960. Date of first publication 1960. Publisher William Heinemann Ltd.
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.
A Man for All Seasons is a 1960 play by English playwright Robert Bolt. Though it was published in its completed form in 1960, it was originally written for radio in 1954. It was then adapted for television in 1957 before finally being rewritten for the stage. The original runs of the show in London and later New York attained critical and ...
Apr 19, 2013 · A Man for All Seasons. Share full article. Illustration by R. Kikuo Johnson. By Andrea Wulf. April 19, 2013. On July 4, 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved to a small cabin at Walden Pond, about a ...
The incredible success of his first play, Flowering Cherry (staged in 1957/1958), drove Bolt into becoming a full-time playwright. Robert Bolt is best known for his most successful play, A Man for All Seasons (staged in 1960), which won five Tony Awards, starring Paul Scofield on Broadway. Bolt himself wrote the film version, adapted in 1966 ...
