What Do I Read Next?
- Thomas More's 1516 work, Utopia, was written before his fatal clash with Henry VIII. This fictional narrative critiques the problems of England and then describes "Utopia" ("nowhere"), a society governed by Humanist principles.
- George Bernard Shaw's 1923 play, Saint Joan, focuses on the martyrdom of Joan of Arc, whose sainthood alienated her from her contemporaries.
- Jean Anouilh's 1969 French drama, Becket, Or the Honor of God, similar to T. S. Eliot's 1935 play, Murder in the Cathedral, depicts the story of British Christian martyr Thomas à Becket.
- In Henrik Ibsen's early play, Enemy of the People (1882), a town ostracizes and persecutes a doctor who warns that the town's profitable baths are contaminated.
- Plato's Apology (written between 371 and 267 BC) recounts Socrates's defense during his trial, where he was accused by the state of impiety and corrupting the youth through his teachings.
- In Sophocles's Antigone (circa 400 BC), a young woman defies the king's edict against burying her brother and faces imprisonment for her act of loyalty. Jean Anouilh's 1942 adaptation of the same name serves as an allegory for France under Vichy rule.
- A detailed examination of the different phases of the English Church Reformation is available in Christopher Haigh's 1993 book, English Reformation: Religion, Politics, and Society under the Tudors.
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