Sir Thomas More

Romuald I. Lakowski has argued that MR (and not her father ) was the author of a poem (two quatrains and a couplet) inscribed in the copy of Treatise concernynge the fruytfull saynges of David...

Letters dating from the period of Thomas More 's imprisonment purport to incorporate dialogue between him and MR . Margaret Bowker in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography argues that both sides of the case...

In a late letter to Mine own most entirely beloved father ,MR continues to use the elaborate phrases typical of contemporary epistolary style (if all the world had been given to me, as...

Margaret Clement , 1540-1612, was the adoptive grand-daughter of Sir Thomas More , a Catholic heroine and an exemplary nun. Her biographer calls her our good grandmother and a firebrand to inkendell me in the...

As a member of her community Shirley wrote for the good of that community. Though she professed to judge herself unworthy, she thought it her duty & part to write, hoping to inspire all those...

The title-page explained that AS 's dream was that of the Improvement of the Condition of the Lower Classes in London. She opened by invoking the vision of More 's Utopia (1516) of citizens free...

Although Shakespeare 's Richard III clearly plays a major role in shaping the myth of Richard's villainy against which Tey writes, she alludes to this play only in passing, when a character comments on Laurence Olivier