Stephen Greenblatt Quote
It was Sir Thomas More, from whom Shakespeare borrowed so much of his portrait of Richard III, who put the matter most clearly almost a hundred years earlier: When I consider any social system that prevails in the modern world, More wrote in Utopia, I can’t, so help me God, see it as anything but a conspiracy of the rich.
Stephen Greenblatt
It was Sir Thomas More, from whom Shakespeare borrowed so much of his portrait of Richard III, who put the matter most clearly almost a hundred years earlier: When I consider any social system that prevails in the modern world, More wrote in Utopia, I can’t, so help me God, see it as anything but a conspiracy of the rich.
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