Thomas More: Bolt’s hero or Mantel’s villain?
Professor Eamon Duffy, historian of the Reformation and the Tudor Church, will talk about More’s reputation in the light of his portrayal in the two immensely influential but contrasting modern fictional portrayals: Robert Bolt’s “Man for all Seasons” which portrayed More as an heroic secular liberal before his time, a martyr for personal freedom of conscience, and Hilary Mantel’s “Wolf Hall”, which in diametric opposition to Bolt portrays More as a cruel and fanatical religious bigot, relentlessly pursuing, torturing and executing his heroic victims. He’ll argue that both pictures are deeply misleading, and that More was something different but much better than either of those options, a martyr for fidelity to the Gospel.
Tickets £10 (which will include a small admin charge) to include a glass of wine and canapés
7.15pm Saturday 21 June 2025. Doors open after Mass 6.55pm. Chapel of St Thomas More, Jay’s Green, Harleston IP20 9HH
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