Utopia (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Thomas More
- First Published: 1516
- Type of Work: Social criticism
- Type of Plot: Utopian
- Time of Work: Mid-fifteenth century
- Setting: Antwerp, England, and Utopia
- Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy
- Subjects: Social reform, Government, Humanism, Sixth century, Utopias, Belgium or Belgian people, Thought or thinking
- Locales: Antwerp, Belgium, Utopia
Critical Evaluation:
How to make a better world in which to live has fascinated the minds of thinkers in every age. From Plato to the present, people have been thinking and writing about what the world would be like if people could create an earthly paradise. One of the most famous pieces of such thought and writing is Sir Thomas More’s Utopia, a work so famous that its title has come to mean an ideal state. Originally written in Latin, the international language of medieval and Renaissance Europe, the book was widely read, and as early as 1551 a translation into...
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