Robert Bolt is probably best known as the screenwriter of Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965), A Man for All Seasons (1966), Ryan's Daughter (1970), and The Mission (1986). For a brief period in the early 1960s he was considered a major figu...

Robert Bolt has been characterized by critic John Russell Taylor as a "good, traditional playwright." Unlike his contemporaries during the late 1950s--Harold Pinter, John Osborne, John Arden, and Arnold Wesker--who followed formulas of the theaters of cr...

A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt Born near Manchester, England, in 1924, Robert Bolt writes about what he calls the human conflict-the struggle between living by one's principles and selling one's soul for earthly rewards. A Man jor All Seasons...

A Man for All Seasons is a play by Robert Bolt. An early form of the play had been written for BBC Radio in 1954, but after Bolt's success with The Flowering Cherry, he reworked it for the stage. It was first performed in London opening at the Globe...

Today is Sunday, April 29, the 119th day of 2007. There are 246 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On April 29, 1945, during World War II, American soldiers liberated the Dachau concentration camp; the same day, Adolf Hitler married Eva Braun and designated...

William Hutt, widely regarded as one of Canada's finest classical actors and a company member at the Stratford Festival for almost four decades, has died at the age of 87.Hutt died Wednesday of leukemia at Stratford General Hospital, the Festival announced.At the Stratford Festival, where...

Jack Valenti, the former White House aide and film industry lobbyist who instituted the modern movie ratings system and guided Hollywood from the censorship era to the digital age, died Thursday. He was 85.Valenti had a stroke in March and was hospitalized for several weeks...

A striking example of the coincidence of opposites has been created by Robert Bolt in his play, A Man For All Seasons. The crude stagehand dressed in satanic black and called the "Common Man" is an exact shadow of Thomas More, the saint-protagonist. More and the Common Man, who at first sight seem so irreconcilable, are two sides of an equation…. Bolt, who is not a Christian in "the meaningful sense of the world" …, makes abundantly clear in the Preface that More&#x...

[A Man for All Seasons] is one of the finest achievements of the modern theatre, and one of the great dramas of selfhood of all time. (pp. 27-8) Bolt sees all too clearly the effects collectivism have had upon the individual. In his preface he describes how in our time we have lost all conception of ourselves as individual men, and as a result we have increasingly come to see ourselves in the third person. As this happens we are less and less able to deal with life's psychic, social, and spiritual co...

Bolt's Sir Thomas More [in A Man for All Seasons] is an intellectual blessed with common sense and cursed with a conscience. He is witty, charming, and wise, and not especially eager to add to these the supererogatory virtue of heroism. His unshakable belief in Catholicism is coupled with an almost equal faith in the law …, which will protect his conscience provided it has the good sense of not going naked to its enemy. He is as loyal a minister to Henry as superior intelligence will permit, a...

Discusses the Common Man's neutral role in "A Man for All Season" by Robert Bolt, and contrasts between the Common Man and Sir Thomas More.

The theme of A Man for All Seasons is public duty. Like Rich and Cromwell, many of our government officials' moral consciences are easily corruptible with the promise of greater wealth and power.

Historical Content behind the movie "A Man for All Seasons"