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Whether it is accurate in all its details or not, A Man for All Seasons is an attempt topresent the historical conflict between Thomas More and Henry VIII. The conflict could be viewed as merely a political one but neither history nor the filmmakers have viewed More's conduct purely in that light, although Henry followed a policy which advanced his personal power while it diminished the power of the Church of Rome. Sir Thomas More was a moral intellectual who adhered to principles that transcended political expediency.. There was a point beyond which he was unwilling to compromise his personal convictions. Robert Bolt borrows some of Brecht's devices in creating his remarkable play, A Man for All Seasons. "I tried then for a bold and beautiful verbal architecture, a story rather than a plot, and overtly theatrical means of switching from one locale to another. I also used the most notorious of alienation devices, an actor who addresses the audience and comments on the action. He is intended to draw the audience into the play." Bolt's narrator/participant is a brilliant creation in a tale about "Kings and Cardinals." Playing a half dozen parts as functionaries (e.g., servant, boatman, jailer, publican, etc.), The
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