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| Section | Summary |
|---|---|
| Epigraph and Preface | The Epigraph includes quotes by British writers Robert Whittington and Samuel Johnson. Whittington calls Sir Thomas More... Read More |
| Act 1, Section 1 | The Common Man, wearing all black, stands in front a basket on a dark stage. He complains about how "perverse" it is for... Read More |
| Act 1, Section 2 | Sir Thomas More arrives at Cardinal Wolsey's office where Wolsey wants to show More a dispatch he has written to send to... Read More |
| Act 1, Section 3 | At the boatyard Sir Thomas More seeks a boatman to take him home, and the Common Man, now costumed as the Boatman, offer... Read More |
| Act 1, Section 4 | Sir Thomas More arrives home exhausted and learns that William Roper is there. He and More's daughter Margaret enter tog... Read More |
| Act 1, Section 5 | The Common Man puts on a pair of glasses and reads to the audience from a book. His reading reveals that Cardinal Wolsey... Read More |
| Act 1, Section 6 | The next scene takes place in Hampton Court, a royal palace. Thomas Cromwell works at Hampton Court and is surprised to ... Read More |
| Act 1, Section 7 | In the garden of the More house, Alice More, Margaret More, and the Duke of Norfolk frantically search for Sir Thomas Mo... Read More |
| Act 1, Section 8 | The scene changes to a pub where the Common Man, now dressed as a publican, or pub worker, sets the table. He muses to t... Read More |
| Act 2, Section 1 | The Common Man enters a dark stage, puts on glasses and opens a book. He tells the audience the first act took place in ... Read More |
| Act 2, Section 2 | At the More home, Sir Thomas More and William Roper wait together. Roper is wearing a cross and is dressed in black. Whe... Read More |
| Act 2, Section 3 | In an alcove the Duke of Norfolk and Thomas Cromwell discuss Sir Thomas More. Norfolk doesn't understand why they can't ... Read More |
| Act 2, Section 4 | Chapuys is at the More house. Alice More, now dressed in an apron, asks Chapuys to leave before Sir Thomas More arrives.... Read More |
| Act 2, Section 5 | Sir Thomas More arrives at Hampton Court where Thomas Cromwell greets him and says Richard Rich will record their conver... Read More |
| Act 2, Section 6 | Sir Thomas More is at the boatyard, calling for a boat and trying to calm himself down. No boat arrives. He runs into th... Read More |
| Act 2, Section 7 | The Common Man returns to the stage with his basket. He's unsettled by previous events but tells the audience no one "en... Read More |
| Act 2, Section 8 | It's morning, with "cold gray light from off the gray water." The jailer wakes Sir Thomas More and says his family has c... Read More |
| Act 2, Section 9 | As "portentous and heraldic" music plays, several coats of arms descend. The jailer changes the scene to the courtroom s... Read More |
| Act 2, Section 10 | The scene is set for an execution. The executioner's ax and block "are silhouetted against a light of steadily increasin... Read More |
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