Man for All Seasons

<b>The dramatization of Sir Thomas More's historic conflict with Henry VIII--a compelling portrait of a courageous man who died for his convictions and a modern classic that challenges the mind and in the end touches the heart (<i>New York Times</i>). <p/></b>Sir Thomas More--the brilliant nobleman lawyer humanist author of such works as <i>Utopia--</i>was a long-time friend and favorite of Henry VIII ascending to the position of Lord Chancellor in 1529. Yet he was also a staunch Catholic and when Henry broke with the Church in 1531 after the Pope had refused to grant him a divorce from Catherine of Aragon More resigned the Chancellorship. In 1534 Parliament passed a bill requiring all subjects to take an oath acknowledging the supremacy of England's king over all foreign sovereigns--including the Pope. More refused was imprisoned and finally was executed in 1535.