#sir thomas more

[green-like-the-sky]

sir thomas more (anton lesser) refuses to sign the oath of supremacy | wolf hall

princess mary tudor (lilit lesser) signs the oath of supremacy | wolf hall: the mirror and the light

[gwydpolls]

Shakespeare Genre Battle: Histories

I'm doing all of them. Don't worry if yours isn't in this poll.

I am including some things with disputed authorship, collaborations, and apocrypha just because.

[kirby-de-aragon]

1st: it's interesting question

2nd: Natalie Dormer comment is so accurate

[art-portraits]

Portrait of Sir Thomas More

Artist: Hans Holbein the Younger (German, 1497/1498–1543)

Genre: Portrait

Date: 1527

Medium: Oil on Oak Panel

Collection: The Frick Collection, New York City, NY, United States

Portrait of Sir Thomas More

The portrait shows the English statesman and humanist Thomas More in three-quarter right half-profile, holding a book, in a fur-lined coat of rich fabrics, black satin, and red velvet. He wearing his Tudor Collar of Esses livery chain with Tudor rose, a sign of fealty and high office. A cord in the upper right is tied in a loose Franciscan knot, a sign of More's spiritual convictions. He is wearing a wedding ring inset with a stone.

The work was created during the period from 1526 when Holbein lived in London. He gained the friendship of the Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus, who recommended that he befriend More, then a powerful, knighted speaker at the English Parliament.

A closely related, though probably not directly preparatory, drawing with body colour is in the Royal Collection, and there is a copy in the National Portrait Gallery, probably "painted in Italy or Austria in the early seventeenth century". Possibly this is the version catalogued in the Leuchtenberg Gallery in 1852.

[therogerclarkfanclub]

ROGER CLARK as King Henry VIII in:

A Man For All Seasons • By Robert Bolt • Directed by Paul Mullins

Also starring:

James McMenamin as Thomas Cromwell (bottom left)

Thomas Michael Hammond as Sir Thomas More and Mary Stewart as Alice More (bottom center)

Raphael Nash Thompson as Cardinal Woolsey (bottom right)

A Man For All Seasons was performed at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey from October 18th to November 5th, 2023.

[austin-friars]

Me, when anyone asks me for credibility

[vox-anglosphere]

King Henry VIII's first Catholic martyr, Thomas More is admired by all faiths. For refusing to sign the Act of Supremacy, he was beheaded.

[racykaye]

A (still great, always relevant) quote from Sir Thomas More (and also Drew Barrymore in Ever After, arguably the best retelling of Cinderella of all time) follow me on IG, support a two-full-time-job-having-rent-and-bill-paying-broke-ass college student on my Etsy account if you feel like it. With all my gratitude ❤️

[mahi1313]

"A man of conscience is not obliged to obey the laws of a sovereign if they go against his own moral principles."

Sir Thomas More 🎯

[movie--posters]

[green-like-the-sky]

thomas cromwell and sir thomas more in wolf hall, episode 2 🐰

bonus:

[hanorganaas]

Me: -sees something about how pious Sir Thomas More is-

Me: Oh shit dude I am so sorry about the shit I am gonna do in my AU Novel

[thelastrenaissance]

Sir Thomas More was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist. Was born on 7 February 1478.

“One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.”

 Thomas More

[twicedailyquotes]

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

Sir Thomas More Utopia

[maypoleman1]

22nd June

Old St Baranabas’ Day/ St Thomas More’s Day

Sir Thomas More. Source: Wikipedia

Today is Old St Baranabas’ Day and St Thomas More’s Day. We covered Barnabas on 11th June. Sir Thomas More was King Henry VIII’s chancellor and could not bring himself to accept the marriage of the King to his second wife Anne Boleyn as anything less than blasphemous. Despite the efforts of many to make Sir Thomas change his mind, he was eventually executed for his opposition to the Henry’s queen and his new Church of England. Sir Thomas’ severed head was displayed on Tower Bridge until his daughter succeeded in obtaining it and took it for Christian burial to Bayards Park in Surrey. From his new place of rest, Sir Thomas soon went a-haunting. Sir Thomas was canonised by the Roman Catholic Church in 1935.

Old St Baranabas’ Day was the traditional date for the Boroughbridge Horse Fair in North Yorkshire, popularly known as Barnaby Fair. The charter granting the fair goes back to 1622, but by the 1980s, the modern world had little use for horse trading fairs and by 1989, it was no more.

[therogerclarkfanclub]

ROGER CLARK as King Henry VIII in:

A Man For All Seasons • By Robert Bolt • Directed by Paul Mullins

A Man For All Seasons was performed at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey from October 18 to November 5, 2023