Utopia (Thomas More)

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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:book
gptkbp:author gptkb:Thomas_More
gptkbp:category Renaissance literature
16th-century books
works by Thomas More
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin gptkb:England
gptkbp:dedicatedTo gptkb:Peter_Giles
gptkb:Hieronymus_van_Busleyden
gptkbp:genre gptkb:philosophy
social satire
frame narrative
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Utopia (Thomas More)
gptkbp:influenced utopian literature
socialist thought
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Plato's_Republic
classical philosophy
gptkbp:mainCharacter gptkb:Raphael_Hythloday
gptkbp:mediaType gptkb:print
gptkbp:notableAdaptation various stage adaptations
gptkbp:notableFeature invented language (Utopian alphabet)
map of 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 1518 Basel edition
1551 English edition
gptkbp:originalLanguage gptkb:Latin
gptkbp:prequel none
gptkbp:publicationYear 1516
gptkbp:publisher gptkb:Dirk_Martens
gptkbp:releaseDate gptkb:Leuven
gptkbp:sequel none
gptkbp:setting fictional island of Utopia
gptkbp:structure two books
gptkbp:subject gptkb:law
gptkb:religion
education
ideal society
prop
political systems
gptkbp:subjectOf literary criticism
numerous academic studies
gptkbp:translatedInto gptkb:Gilbert_Burnet_(1684)
gptkb:Ralph_Robinson_(1551)
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:New_Atlantis
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5