The "Man for All Seasons" Again: Robert Whittington's Verses to Sir Thomas More

Abstract

T HE RECENT success in London and New York of Robert Bolt's play, A Man for All Seasons, has perhaps revived interest in the early Tudor grammarian Robert Whittington (ca. I480-ca. I 548) . For, as Bolt reminds us in his program note, the title of his drama comes from Whittington's Vulgaria (i520),' where the sixteenthcentury schoolboy is carefully instructed on the proper method of turning the following sentences into good Latin:

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