A Man for All Seasons | Act Two Summary
Like Act One, Act Two begins with Common Man addressing the audience directly. This time he announces the passage of two years and reads from a history book a paragraph on the sixteenth-century British practice of "imprisonment without trial, and even examination under torture'' as means to protect the Church of England.
More and Roper enter, now guardedly disputing whether the King has a right to declare himself the "Supreme Head" of the Church, as he has done. More hopes to take refuge in the phrase "so far as the law of God allows." Chapuys arrives to pressure More to...
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