The life of the English humanist and statesman Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) exemplifies the political and spiritual upheaval of the Reformation. The author of "Utopia," he was beheaded for opposing the religious policy of Henry VIII. Thomas More was born...
Sir Thomas More is--in the phrase associated with him since the early sixteenth century--a man for all seasons. World renowned as the author of Utopia (1516), he wrote humanist, polemical, and spiritual works in Latin and English and thereby contributed...
Sir Thomas More's place in the history of rhetoric and logic is secure for two reasons. First, he enacted the "new learning" of the studia humanitatis, translating and transforming ancient literature to produce a new literature keyed to his age; second,...
"Utopia" is a term that English statesman and author Thomas More coined in the early sixteenth century in his novel of the same name. It is derived from two Greek words:Eutopia (meaning "good place") and Outopia (meaning...
UTOPIA. The term utopia (from the Greek ou-topos, "no place," or eutopos, "good place," and evidently coined as a pun by Thomas More for the title of his book published in 1516) has very diverse, often confusing...
De Optimo Reipublicae Statu deque Nova Insula Utopia (translated On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia) or more simply Utopia is a 1516 book by Sir (Saint) Thomas More. The book, written in Classical Latin, is a frame narrative...
New Anthologies Gregory Claeys and Lyman Tower Sargent, ers. The Utopia Reader. New York and London: New York University Press, 1999, 421 + xiii pp. $55 (cloth), $18.30 (paper). John Carey, ed. The Faber Book of Utopias. London: Faber and Faber, 1999,...
David Harris Sacks, ed. Utopia, by Sir Thomas More. Boston & New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1999. Pp. xvi, 236. Cloth, $39.95; ISBN 0-312-12256-X. David Harris Sacks, professor of history and humanities at Reed College and author of two books on early modern British...
"The Coast of Utopia," Tom Stoppard's sprawling tale of 19th-century Russian intellectuals, and "Spring Awakening," a pounding post-rock musical of teenage sexual anxiety, dominated the recently concluded Broadway season.And there's no reason to believe they won't do the same Sunday at the 2007 Tony Awards...
"The Coast of Utopia" was chosen best play of the New York theater season, and "Spring Awakening" was named best musical in awards given Sunday by the Drama Desk, an organization of theater journalists."Utopia," Tom Stoppard's epic look at 19th century Russian intellectuals, was the...
In the following essay, Zavala argues that Thomas More's Utopia served as an early model for the relatively humanistic treatment of Indians in Mexico in the sixteenth century by the Spanish jurist and bishop Vasco de Quiroga.
Provides insight into Sir Thomas More's novel, Utopia. Explores its conception, the reasoning behind its ideology and what events in Thomas More's life made him write it.
In his book "Utopia," Thomas More argues that human sin and inequities can be nearly eliminated by placing them in an environment removes the need to commit sinful actions. In More's concept of utopian society, people are honest and equal because of the way that society is structured.
