Historical Fiction
Elizabethan drama on Thomas More’s rise and fall, weighing obedience, law, and conscience amid anti-immigrant unrest.
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Elizabethan drama on Thomas More’s rise and fall, weighing obedience, law, and conscience amid anti-immigrant unrest.
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Sir Thomas More is an Elizabethan play and a dramatic biography based on particular events in the life of the Catholic martyr Thomas More, who rose to become the Lord Chancellor of England during the reign of Henry VIII. The play is considered to be written by Anthony Munday and Henry Chettle and revised by several writers. The manuscript is particularly notable for a three-page handwritten revision now widely attributed to William Shakespeare. This play is not a biography; it is a drama that de...
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will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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No romantic or sexual content depicted
Violence & gore
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Mob riot scenes; imprisonment and offstage execution without graphic gore
Profanity
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Mild period oaths; no modern strong profanity
Substance use
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No evidence found in available sources
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No LGBTQIA+ representation depicted
Religious content
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Catholic conscience and martyrdom central to More’s conflict with the crown
Magic & witchcraft
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No magic or witchcraft present
Occult / demonology
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No occult or demonology content present
Political content
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Central themes of obedience, rule of law, and anti-immigrant unrest
Self-harm / suicide
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No self-harm or suicide content depicted
Abuse & suffering
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Political persecution, imprisonment, mob violence against foreigners
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