In a letter to members, SAA president Heather James expressed SAA's commitment to diversity, and concluded with a postscript: "To give the last word to Shakespeare, I provide a link to Sir Ian McKellen's performance of
Sir Thomas More on strangers." (27) More and McKellen are presented as surrogates for the figure of Shakespeare himself, who comes back to urge values based on tolerance, a sense of shared humanity.
Sir Thomas More. By Anthony Munday and Others; revised by Henry Chettle, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Heywood and William Shakespeare.
GUY, THE PUBLIC CAREER OF
SIR THOMAS MORE 203 (1980) [hereinafter GUY, PUBLIC CAREER OF MORE].
The work on view that grapples most directly perhaps with the historical idea of utopia is Leif Elggren and Carl Michael yon Hausswolff's portentously titled The Annexation of Utopia by the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland, 2003, a book-shredding and -recycling act for which the Swedish artists pulped multiple copies of a specially printed edition of
Sir Thomas More's Utopia (1516), formed the pulp into lovely sheets of raw paper, and hung them out to dry on open-air clotheslines in an attractive triangular installation in which meaning is erased in favor of sheer materiality.
67), despite the fact that it is well attested long before the birth of Wyclif;
Sir Thomas More's references to sheep as devouring the peasantry was hardly a reference to the 'enclosures', which took place many years later (p.
February 7, 1478: Birth of humanist and statesman
Sir Thomas More: The son of John
Teacher: We've been talking about England under Henry VIII, and today we're going to investigate one of the most celebrated men of the day,
Sir Thomas More. More was an author who wrote about the ideal society (Utopia); an attorney; and even the Lord Chancellor, the second most powerful man in England.
NO-ONE who watches the award-winning film, A Man For All Seasons, comes away with anything less than a huge respect for the courage and conviction of
Sir Thomas More.
How much money Pitman and actress Jenny Agutter-who was also locked up in
Sir Thomas More's old cell-have raised for research into breast cancer will be revealed early next week.
Utopia, by
Sir Thomas More. Boston & New York: Bedford/St.
Sir Thomas More's mould-shattering fable about a perfect society on the mythical island of Utopia has generated many subsequent visions and philosophies about the way in which it might be realised.