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Robert Bolt

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born

August 15, 1924 in Sale, Cheshire, The United Kingdom

died

February 20, 1995

gender

male

genre

Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction

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Son of a small shopkeeper, he attended Manchester Grammar School. He later said that he made poor uses of his opportunities there. He went to work in an insurance office, but later entered Manchester University, taking a degree in History. A post-graduate year at Exeter University led to a schoolmaster's position, first at a village school in Devon, then for seven years at Millfield. During this time he wrote a dozen radio plays, which were broadcast. Encouraged by the London success of his stage play "Flowering Cherry" he left teaching for full-time writing. 1960 saw two of his plays ("The Tiger And The Horse" and "A Man For All Seasons") running concurrently in the West End.

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Books by Robert Bolt

Average rating: 3.83 · 3,036 ratings · 170 reviews · 12 distinct works

	A Man for All Seasons 3.83 avg rating — 2,993 ratings — published 1960 — 19 editions	My rating:
	The Mission 3.81 avg rating — 21 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Thwarting Of Baron Bolligrew: A Comedy 3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1968 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Vivat! Vivat Regina! 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	Gentle Jack 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1965	My rating:
	Plays 1: Flowering Cherry/The Tiger and the Horse/Gentle Jack 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2001	My rating:
	The Mission 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	State of Revolution: A Play in Two Acts 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1977	My rating:
	Flowering Cherry 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Plays Two 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2001	My rating:

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Quotes by Robert Bolt

“Thomas More: ...And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned around on you--where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast--man's laws, not God's--and if you cut them down...d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.”
― Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons

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“If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live like animals or angels in the happy land that /needs/ no heroes. But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice and thought, and have to choose, to be human at all... why then perhaps we /must/ stand fast a little --even at the risk of being heroes.”
― Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons

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“I'm breathing . . . are you breathing too? It's nice, isn't it?”
― Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons

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