"Analyzes the ways in which Thomas More's writings treat the major cultural categories of the individual in civil life -- including pleasure and gender, chance, friendship, and role play -- as central to More's own views on the common weal, the common good, and the good state"--Provided by publisher.

A. D. Cousins is professor of philosophy and head of the English Department at Macquarie University, Australia, as well as a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and a member of the Order of Australia. He is the author of Shakespeare's Sonnets and Narrative Poems (2000) and The Catholic Religious Poets from Southwell to Crashaw (1991) and the coeditor of Ben Jonson and the Politics of Genre (2009).