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
Intertextuality and Influence
Anna Swanwick
The title-page explained that AS
's dream was that of the Improvement of the Condition of the Lower Classes in London.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
She opened by invoking the vision of More
's Utopia (1516) of citizens free...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Shirley
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...
Textual Features
Elizabeth Shirley
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...
Family and Intimate relationships
Margaret Roper
MR
and her father
together watched from the Tower of London, where More was imprisoned, as five priests (one a personal friend) were tied to hurdles on which they would be dragged to the...
Family and Intimate relationships
Margaret Roper
Sir Thomas More
, MR
's father, was beheaded (the sentence commuted from hanging because of the high office he had held), and his severed head displayed on a spike on Tower Bridge as that...
Material Conditions of Writing
Margaret Roper
The month after Sir Thomas More
was sent to the Tower for refusing to swear obedience to the Act of Succession, MR
apparently wrote him a lamentable letter urging him to swear, that is to...
Textual Production
Margaret Roper
Either MR
, or her father
, or both in concert, wrote to her stepsister Lady Alington
, informing her of their debates about the danger More was incurring for the sake of his conscience.
McCutcheon, Elizabeth. “Margaret More Roper: The Learned Woman in Tudor England”. Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation, edited by Katharina M. Wilson, University of Georgia Press, pp. 449-80.
472-5, 477
Family and Intimate relationships
Margaret Roper
The family of Thomas More
were merchants and lawyers of London's bourgeois ruling class: Thomas duly became a lawyer and out of personal passion became a scholar of the new humanist learning. He married again...
Instructor
Margaret Roper
Margaret More, together with her siblings and Margaret Giggs
, made up a whole School
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
taught in the More family home. They received an education which was exceptional in any case and even more so...
Leisure and Society
Margaret Roper
In 1527 or early 1528 MR
was painted by Hans Holbein the Younger
, in a group portrait of all of Thomas More's household. From the painting Holbein made a drawing (not now extant) and...
politics
Margaret Roper
Thomas More
's opposition to Henry VIII
's projected marriage to Anne Boleyn
was unshakable. On 17 April 1534 he was imprisoned in the Tower of London as a political offender, having refused on 12...
Literary responses
Margaret Roper
Her father
was so pleased with her epistolary skills that he showed her letters to such luminaries as Reginald Pole
(who at first would not believe that this was really her work) and John Veysey
Textual Production
Margaret Roper
Many of her lost works must have been apprentice pieces written in Greek or Latin to hone her skills in those languages. Her works known by repute include the difficult assignment, in answer to a...
Textual Production
Margaret Roper
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...
Timeline
1508: Desiderius Erasmus, while staying with Sir...
Writing climate item
1508
Desiderius Erasmus
, while staying with Sir Thomas More
on his second visit to England, wrote his Encomium Moriae (also known as In Praise of Folly), which was published the following year.
1516: Sir Thomas More published, not in England...
Writing climate item
1516
Sir Thomas More
published, not in England but at Louvain, his socio-politicalsatire and fantasyUtopia, written in Latin.
About September 1521: Erasmus reported his approval of his friend...
Building item
About September 1521
Erasmus
reported his approval of his friend Thomas More
's action in giving his whole household an education in good literature
Erasmus, Desiderius. Collected Works of Erasmus. Editors Schoeck, Richard J. and Beatrice Corrigan, University of Toronto Press.
8: 297
(females equally with males).
March 1524: Erasmus's Abbatis et Eruditae was published...
Building item
March 1524
Erasmus
's Abbatis et Eruditae was published in his Colloquies.
About 1529: The Instruction of a Christian Woman, translated...
Building item
About 1529
The Instruction of a Christian Woman, translated by Richard Hyrde
from Juan Luis Vives
of Valencia in Spain, was published, after the translator's death.
2 July 1927: Crosby Hall in Chelsea (a building originally...
Building item
2 July 1927
Crosby Hall in Chelsea (a building originally located in Bishopsgate in the City of London, once owned by Sir Thomas More
, probably later rented by Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
, moved stone...
June 1961: Margaret Stanley Wrench wrote and published...
Guthkelch, Adolph Charles, and Sir Thomas More. “Note; Introduction”. Utopia, edited by George Sampson and George Sampson, G. Bell and Sons, 1914, p. v - vii; xi-xxv.
More, Sir Thomas. “Of the sorowe, werinesse, feare, and prayer of Christ before hys taking”. The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght, edited by William Rastell and William Rastell, translated by. Mary Basset, John Cawod, John Waly, and Richarde Tottell, 1557, pp. 1350-04.
More, Sir Thomas, and Sir Thomas More. “Of the sorowe, werinesse, feare, and prayer of Christ before hys taking”. Early Tudor Translators, edited by Lee Cullen Khanna, translated by. Mary Basset, Ashgate, 2001.
More, Sir Thomas. St. Thomas More’s History of the Passion. Editor Hallett, Philip Edward, Translator Basset, Mary, Burns, Oates, and Washbourne, 1941.
More, Sir Thomas. The Complete Works of St. Thomas More. Yale University Press, 1997.
