Works by Sir Thomas More and Contemporaries
Greene, James J., and John P. Dolan, eds. The Essential Thomas More. New York: New American Library, 1967.
Erasmus, Desiderius. Correspondence. 13 vols. to date. Translated by R. A.B. Mynors and D. F.S. Thomson; annotated by P. G. Bietenholz, Wallace K. Ferguson, and J. K. McConica. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974- .
More, Thomas. The History of King Richard III and Selections from the English and Latin Poems. Edited by Richard S. Sylvester. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1976.
More, Thomas. Selected Letters. Edited by Elizabeth Frances Rogers. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1961.
More, Thomas. Utopia. Translated by Ralph Robinson; introduction by Wayne A. Rebhorn. New York: Barnes and Noble Classics, 2005. (Robinson’s translation was originally published in 1928; the present volume also contains William Roper’s The Life of Sir Thomas More.)
More, Thomas. Utopia. Translated by Paul Turner. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin Books, (1965) 2003.
More, Thomas. Utopia: A New Translation, Backgrounds, Criticism. 2nd ed. Translated and edited by Robert M. Adams. New York: W. W. Norton, 1992.
More, Thomas. Utopia. With Erasmus’s The Sileni of Alcibiades. Translated and edited by David Wootton. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1999.
More, Thomas. The Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St. Thomas More. 15 vols. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1963-1997. (The standard scholarly edition of More’s works.)
Biographies
Ackroyd, Peter. The Life of Thomas More. London: Chatto and Windus, 1998.
Chambers, R. W. Thomas More. London: Jonathan Cape, 1935.
Fox, Alistair. Thomas More: History and Providence. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1982.
Marius, Richard. Thomas More: A Biography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
More, Cresacre. The Life of Sir Thomas More. Edited by Joseph Hunter. London: William Pickering, 1828. (A life of More by his great-grandson, first published in 1630. Available in the on-demand Legacy Reprint Series, Whitefish, Montana: Kessinger Publishing; see http://www. kessinger. net/).
Reynolds, E. E. The Field Is Won: The Life and Death of Saint Thomas More. London: Burns and Oates, 1968.
Reynolds, E. E., ed. Lives of Thomas More: William Roper and Nicholas Harpsfield. Everyman’s Library. London: Dent, 1963.
Reynolds, E. E. Margaret Roper. New York: P. J. Kennedy and Sons, 1960.
Stapleton, Thomas. The Life and Illustrious Martyrdom of Sir Thomas More. Translated by Philip E. Hallett; edited by E. E. Reynolds. New York: Fordham University Press, 1966.
Novels and Studies
Bennett, Vanora. Portrait of an Unknown Woman. New York: William Morrow, 2007. (A novel that has Margaret Giggs, More’s adopted daughter, as the principal subject.)
Hogrefe, Pearl. The Sir Thomas More Circle. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1959.
Littleton, Taylor, and Robert R. Rea. To Prove a Villain: The Case of King Richard III. New York: Macmillan, 1964. (This “casebook” brings together many of the documents that have played a part in shaping the continuing controversy over the life and reign of Richard III, including More’s History of King Richard III [complete], Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of King Richard the Third [complete], Horace Walpole’s Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third [selections], and Tey’s The Daughter of Time [complete], among others.)
Morison, Stanley. The Likeness of Thomas More. New York: Fordham University Press, 1963. (A survey, with 42 illustrations, of the ways that Thomas More has been portrayed by various artists, beginning with Hans Holbein the Younger and continuing with examples by other artists through the eighteenth century.)
Plaidy, Jean [Eleanor Hibbert]. St. Thomas’s Eve. London: Pan Books, 1966.
Reed, A. W. Early Tudor Drama: Medwall, the Rastells, Heywood, and the More Circle. London: Methuen, 1926; rpt. New York: Octagon Books, 1969.
Sylvester, R. S., and G. P. Marc’hadour, eds. Essential Articles for the Study of Thomas More. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1977.
Tey, Josephine [Elizabeth Mackintosh]. The Daughter of Time. London: Peter Davies, 1951. (With many subsequent editions by various publishers.)
Filmography and Screenplay
Bolt, Robert. A Man for All Seasons. New York: Random House, 1962. (Screenplay. The original Broadway production, starring Paul Scofield, opened at the ANTA Playhouse [New York] on November 21, 1961, and played for 637 perfor-
A Man for All Seasons (1966). Highland Films (USA). Directed by Fred Zinnemann.
Paul Scofield as Thomas More. Screenplay by Robert Bolt.
A Man for All Seasons (1988). Agamemnon Films (USA), in association with British Lion [Film Company]. Directed by Charlton Heston. Charlton Heston as Thomas More. Screenplay by Robert Bolt.
Websites
Amici Thomae Mori (The Friends of Thomas More): Http://www. amici-thomae-mori. Com/uk/.
The Center for Thomas More Studies: Http://thomasmorestudies. org/.
The Richard III Society, American Branch: http://www. r3.org/.
The St. Thomas More Website: Http://www. apostles. com/thomasmore. html.
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By deposing and then perhaps murdering his nephew Edward V and his younger brother, Richard III revived the Wars of the Roses, thereby destroying himself and his dynasty and making possible the rule of the House of Tudor under King Henry VII. (Corel)
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