TY - GEN T1 - The New Republic : a Commentary on Book I of More's Utopia Showing Its Relation to Plato's Republic. A1 - Starnes, Colin LA - English PP - Waterloo PB - Wilfrid Laurier University Press YR - 2006 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn781318066 AB - Colin Starnes radical interpretation of the long-recognized affinity of Thomas More's Utopia and Plato's Republic confirms the intrinsic links between the two works. Through commentary on More's own introduction to Book I, the author shows the Republic is everywhere present as the model of the "best commonwealth," which More must first discredit as the root cause of the dreadful evils in the collapsing political situation of sixteenth-century Europe. Starnes demonstrates how More, once having shorn the Republic of what was applicable to a society that had for a thousand years accepted and bee. OP - 137 CN - F1411 SN - 9780889205956 SN - 0889205957 SN - 1282233424 SN - 9781282233423 SN - 9780889209787 KW - More, Thomas, : Saint, : 1478-1535 : Criticism and interpretation. KW - More, Thomas, : Saint, : 1478-1535. : Utopia. KW - Plato. : Republic. KW - More, Thomas, : Saint, : 1478-1535 KW - Republic (Plato) KW - Utopia (More, Thomas, Saint) KW - Political science. KW - History. KW - Histoire. KW - history (discipline) KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE : General. KW - History KW - Political science KW - Electronic books. KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. ER -