by Robert Bolt · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780679728221
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«A Man for All Seasons» is a two-act play by Robert Bolt, published by Vintage in paperback (163 pages, in English).
Set in sixteenth-century England, the play recreates the confrontation between Sir Thomas More and Henry VIII when the king breaks with the Church of Rome to annul his marriage. Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor and a convinced Catholic, resigns his office and refuses to swear to the monarch's supremacy over the Pope, placing his conscience at the center of the drama.
«A Man for All Seasons» was originally published in 1960 and this Vintage edition is a 1990 reprint; it received the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for best foreign play in 1962.
It is suitable for readers interested in classic theater, historical dramas, and conflicts of conscience in the face of power.
Robert Oxton Bolt was an English playwright and a screenwriter, known for writing the screenplays for Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, and A Man for All Seasons, the latter two of which won him the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He also was the recipient of a Tony Award, two BAFTA Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Laurence Olivier Award.
