Utopia (1516 book)

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Utopia_(1516_book)
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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:book
gptkbp:adaptation radio adaptations
stage plays
gptkbp:author gptkb:Thomas_More
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin gptkb:England
gptkbp:dealsWith gptkb:community
gptkb:law
gptkb:politics
gptkb:religion
economics
education
gptkbp:followedBy utopian literature tradition
gptkbp:genre gptkb:philosophy
social satire
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Utopia (1516 book)
gptkbp:illustrator gptkb:Ambrosius_Holbein
gptkbp:influenced utopian literature
socialist thought
gptkbp:literaryPeriod gptkb:Renaissance
gptkbp:mediaType gptkb:print
gptkbp:notableCharacter gptkb:Raphael_Hythloday
gptkb:Thomas_More_(character)
gptkbp:notableFor coining the term 'utopia'
gptkbp:notableQuote For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.
gptkbp:notableRelease gptkb:1551_English_translation_by_Ralph_Robinson
1556 English translation by Gilbert Burnet
gptkbp:originalLanguage gptkb:Latin
gptkbp:publicationYear 1516
gptkbp:publisher gptkb:Dirk_Martens
gptkbp:releaseDate gptkb:Leuven
gptkbp:setting fictional island of Utopia
gptkbp:structure two books
gptkbp:subject social criticism
ideal society
communal ownership
gptkbp:translatedInto English
many languages
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:The_Utopians
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7