Product Description: Sir Thomas More is a collaborative Elizabethan play, generally thought to be written by William Shakespeare.

Product Description: This edition of Sir Thomas More is the first to bring the play into the context of a major Shakespeare series, to provide a substantial critical analysis, and to offer a comprehensive modern stage history. The introduction deals with issues such as the strange involvement of the anti-Catholic spy-hunter Anthony Munday as chief dramatist, the place of Sir Thomas More as a Catholic martyr in Protestant late Elizabethan culture, and the play's representation of a multi-cultural London...read more

Famously censored by the Master of Revels and then revised - probably by Shakespeare himself - this is the story of Henry VIII's chancellor, executed for failing to arrange Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon The work of many hands, the manuscript includes three pages in what may be Shakespeare's own handwriting.

Product Description: The best edition of the play in print. Gives a radical re-examination of the manuscript, and relates step by step to the process by which the play acquired its final form. Accounts for every single word and mark found in the manuscript - reproduces rejected or alternative passages at the end of the text...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)