Sir Thomas More: afterlives and the great matter

• Grant number: 12/22101-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: September 01, 2013
• End date: August 31, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Modern Foreign Literatures
• Principal Investigator: Suzi Frankl Sperber
• Grantee: Régis Augustus Bars Closel
• Supervisor: John Jowett
• Host Institution: Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem (IEL). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: University of Birmingham, England
• Associated to the scholarship: 11/21988-9 - Sir Thomas More: analysis and translation, BP.DR

Abstract

The Elizabethan plays written during last decade of the XVIth century are generally very concerned with English history. It is important to remember, however, that the era which is so often depicted in these plays, such as Richard II and Richard III, was very distant from the contemporary audience in Tudor England. The history of that illustrious family, the Tudors, remains very popular today. This project is concerned with enquiring into why such momentous events, such as the break with Rome and Henry VIII's divorces, seemed to pass almost unnoticed by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, apart from some obscure references in the later Jacobean play, Shakespeare and Fletcher's Henry VIII. The focus here is mainly on the play that dramatises the life of Sir Thomas More, a figure who had a considerable effect on these two key historical moments. There is also some examination here of how the Lord Chancellor's rise and eventual execution are dealt with in the plays written after his death and of other plays about moments historically close to the dramatists. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

BARS CLOSEL, REGIS AUGUSTUS. Fictional Remembrances of Sir Thomas More: Part I - The Sixteenth Century. MOREANA, v. 53, n. 1-2, p. 171-204, JUN 2016. (12/22101-0)

BARS CLOSEL, REGIS AUGUSTUS. Fictional Remembrances of Sir Thomas More: Part II/II- Early Seventeenth Century. MOREANA, v. 53, n. 3-4, p. 142-177, DEC 2016. (12/22101-0)