Memorializing History in The Booke of Sir Thomas Moore
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20145094 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arthur F Kinney (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 45 (Number 174) |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 55-96 |
| Publication date | 2008-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Moreana (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-8105 • E-ISSN: 2398-4961 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/more.2008.45.2.6 |
| OpenAlex | W2481652111 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Tracing the various playtexts of Sir Thomas Moore, a play of the 1590s written partly by Shakespeare, reveals differing perspectives on the cause and significance of Evil May Day and thus serves as a litmus test on its various cultural meanings and a history of cultural change. Under a strongly Protestant regime, the Catholic Thomas More is seen heroically as an authority who puts down protest and uprisings, a champion of peace. From another viewpoint, he is the humanist interested in social justice. After the threat of the Spanish Armada, however, attention turned to the rioters as alien workers displacing natives ones. To make More more acceptable, he was turned into a man of wit and of theatricality, his Catholicism parodied. Together, such varied responses suggest the rich complexity of a play which deserves to be better known
Aesthetics · Champion · Criminology · Economic Justice · Humanism · Litmus · Political science · Protestantism · Sociology · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religious studies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |