A Man for All Seasons
Man for All Seasons, A Author: Robert Bolt
First Performance: 1960, London
Published: 1960
Genre: Hist. drama in 2 acts
Setting: Various locations in London and environs, 1526–35
Cast: 11m, 3f
The Common Man as narrator introduces the play and comments throughout. Sir Thomas More is an incorruptible and generous Privy Councillor with a wife Alice and a daughter Margaret. Cardinal Wolsey tries to persuade More that the young King Henry VIII, still in his thirties, should reject his present wife Catherine of Aragon, who is as ‘barren as brick’, so that he can remarry and have a male heir. When Wolsey dies in disgrace in 1530, More is appointed Lord Chancellor. Wolsey's former secretary, the devious Thomas Cromwell, urges More to support the King's application for an annulment, and the Spanish ambassador...
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