Updated annually by the Center for Thomas More Studies
This bibliography, completed up through January 2017, was compiled by Dr. Romuald Lakowski, English Department, Grant Macewan University, Edmonton, Canada.
It includes brief annotations and links to online reference works and primary sources.
For suggested additions and corrections, please email bibliography@
Bibliographies, Concordances, and Supplements to Utopia Editions
Early English Translations (1551-1800)
Modernizations of Burnet (1800-Present)
Modernizations of Robinson (1800-Present)
Studies of the English Translations
Genre, Composition, Parerga, Book I, and Conclusion
Humanism, Ethics, Philosophy, and Religion
Classical and Medieval Sources and Analogues
Early Modern Reception of Utopia
More, Bacon, Andreae, Campanella, and Burton
More, Castiglione, Spenser, and Sidney
More, Machiavelli, Seyssel, and Bodin
Utopia, Milton, and Shakespeare
More, Rabelais, Montaigne, and Voltaire
More, Bartolome de Las Casas, and Vasco de Quiroga
Utopia, Spain, New Spain, and America
Utopia in the 16th to 18th Centuries
General Studies and Reference Works
More vs. Christopher St. German
Dialogue of Sir Thomas More, Knight
Confutation of Tyndale’s Answer
The Debellation of Salem and Bizance
General Studies and Collections
The Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation
A Treatise to Receive the Blessed Body of Our Lord
De tristitia Christi / The Sadness of Christ
Dame Alice More and Joanna More
More’s Family, Friends and Descendants: 16th Century
More’s Family and Descendants: 17th and 18th Centuries
Nicholas Harpsfield (1519-1575)
Fernando de Herrera (c1534-1597)
William Rastell’s 1557 Edition and Other Early Editions
18th Century Biographies (1700-1799)
19th Century Biographies (1800-1913)
Modern Biographies (1914-1963)
General Critical Studies of More’s Works
Essay Collections and Special Issues
English Language, Literature, and Prose Style
Latin Language, Rhetoric, and Grammar
Thomas More, Morality, and the Law: Essays, Appreciations, and Public Addresses
Thomas More, Medicine, and Health Reform
More, Saint Francis, and the Franciscans
Thomas More and the Reformation
Spirituality and Moral Character
On More’s Name, Coat of Arms, etc.
More’s signatures, Seals, and Official Documents
More and Drama: General Studies
More in Tudor and Stuart Drama (excluding Shakespeare)
More and Shakespeare: General Essays
Jesuit and Other Scholastic Plays (1612-1762)
Puget de la Serre, Thomas Morus and Dutch Translations and Adaptations (1641/42-1735)
Italian Plays, Operas, and Oratorios about More (1648-1738)
Late 18th and 19th Century Plays about More (1785-1900)
Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Plays about More
Robert Bolt: A Man For All Seasons: Play and Film
Editions of the “Shakespearean” Addition
Performance Reviews and Theatricality
Manuscript History, Date, and Other Problems
Studies of Authorship, and Other Additions, and Stylometry
Holbein (Except the Family Portrait)
Quentin Metsys: Erasmus and Peter Gillis Portraits
Dialogues, Colloquys, and Fictional Letters
Other Novels About Thomas More and His Family