Jasper Ridley. Statesman and Saint: Cardinal Wolsey, Sir Thomas More and the Politics of Henry VIII. New York: Viking Press. 1983. Pp. xi, 338. $20.75.

1983 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 349-350
Author(s):  
Stanford E. Lehmberg
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Henry Viii ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
Sir Thomas More

Thomas More in the Subtext of Shakespeare and Fletcher’s Henry VIII

Moreana ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 42 (Number 163) (3) ◽  
pp. 105-118
Author(s):  
Clare M. Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Henry Viii ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
Dominant Theme ◽  
Sir Thomas More ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Since the dominant theme of the play is that of “The King’s Great Matter” (his divorce of Katherine and marriage to Anne) it would be difficult for a viewer or reader not to think of Thomas More as the play unfolds, so much was he involved in this event. But Sir Thomas More—which also had Shakespeare among its authors—was not approved by the Master of the Revels, and the playwrights no doubt wished to avoid a similar rejection. A solution for them was to suggest More in the subtext, particularly since his cult was by then well established. This article studies the relationship of the absent More to several of the characters present on stage.

“Still more things to forget, in the wiping of Henry Patenson’s bottom in the Exchequer”

Moreana ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 51 (Number 195- (1-2) ◽  
pp. 29-43
Author(s):  
Roger Schofield
Keyword(s):  
High Rank ◽  
Henry Viii ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
Sir Thomas More ◽  
The One ◽  
Very High

The final piece of parchment of the roll kept by the Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer for 16 Henry VIII, or 1524–5, contains a very strange case. Written partly in Latin and partly in English, as was the normal practice of the Court of the Exchequer, it contains a pretended report on the dispute between John Hone, a citizen and maker of candles, on the one hand, and Henry Patenson, more familiarly known as Harry Patenson, because of his physical likeness to king Henry VIII. The defendant in the Exchequer case was described as the ‘Simperyng fole of london’. This case in the Exchequer court had some exceptionally well known participants, including the Second and Third Barons of the Exchequer, who were of very high rank. This article sheds new light on Sir Thomas More.

Tunstal—Trimmer or Martyr?

1973 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 337-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morley Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Close Friend ◽  
Henry Viii ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
The World ◽  
Sir Thomas More

Was Cuthbert Tunstal a ‘trimmer’—that is, one primarily concerned with his own advantage—rather than a partisan in the religious revolution initiated by Henry VIII? We might have expected the latter contingency after reading the glowing tribute paid to him by Sir Thomas More: ‘… the incomparable Cuthbert Tunstal, who, to everyone's satisfaction, has recently been appointed Master of the Rolls. I will not try to praise him, not simply because the world would discount such praise from a close friend, but because his fine qualities and learning defy description. His fame is so widespread, that praising him would be, as they say, like lighting up the sun with a candle’. Yet the historiographical neglect of Tunstal seems to indicate that historians have preferred the pejorative judgement of Foxe, who says that he ‘dissembled’ in taking the Oath of Supremacy to Henry VIII. All the conservative bishops who took the oath ‘turned cat-in-the-pan’ in Mary's reign, but when they took it in 1535 they were, according to Foxe, ‘right Lutherans’. He, unquestionably, thought Tunstal was a ‘trimmer’.

scholarly journals Sir Thomas More, Utopia, and the Representation of Henry VIII, 1529-1533

2009 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 59-72
Author(s):  
J. Christopher Warner
Keyword(s):  
Henry Viii ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
Open Debate ◽  
Sir Thomas More ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Lord Chancellor

This essay examines Sir Thomas More's Utopia in the context of Henry VIII's divorce crisis. During this period tracts from the royal press publicized an image of Henry VIII as a disinterested philosopher-king who welcomed open debate and advice at his court. Reading Morus and Hythlodaeus's dialogue on the subject of court counsel in light of this campaign helps us to perceive the manner in which More's appointment as lord chancellor served the purposes of the king's propaganda.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Stephen Wall
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Henry Viii ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
The Right

I stand in the Frick gallery in New York, staring at the two sixteenth-century Holbein portraits on the wall in front of me. On the left is Thomas More, on the right, Thomas Cromwell. They look as they must have been. Both lost their heads to the tyrant Henry VIII, whom they both served. But their portraits are timeless, modern in their precision, acute in their revelation of character. No way can the piggy-eyed, clever thug that Holbein saw in Cromwell be reconciled with the sympathetic version created by Hilary Mantel in ...

Sir Thomas More and the Opposition to Henry VIII

Moreana ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 4 (Number 15-16 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 285-303
Author(s):  
G.R. Elton
Keyword(s):  
Henry Viii ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
Sir Thomas More
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