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When Henry VIII cast off his Queen after 18 years of marriage, broke with Rome because the Pope would not give him a divorce, and set up his own Church of England with himself as its Supreme Head, only a few eminent men refused to go along with him. One of these was Sir Thomas More, though he liked the King and had no taste for martyr- dom. You do not need to decide on the rights or wrongs of the case - theological, legal or moral - in order to appreciate the stand made by More in this play: the author admires him as a hero of 'selfhood.' This rare virtue, set in the play in contrast to the cynical assertion that every man has his price, matters today as much as it did in the Sixteenth Century. ISBN:0435221000
