Resources for Sir Thomas More

General Sites

• Luminarium:  Sir Thomas More (1478-1535):  The best Thomas More site on the web.  Includes access to online works, a good brief biography, critical essays and articles, and an extensive links page.
• Thomas More Society:  A society of Catholic lawyers dedicated to More's ideals.  Includes a good brief biography, several useful chronologies, etc.
• St. Thomas More Web Page:  A generous and often interesting miscellany of materials on More.  (apostles.com)
• St. Thomas More Web Page:  Offers some useful materials, including a brief and usable Chronology of More's life and some Photographs of London Places Associated with More.  

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Utopia

• Utopia:  An easy-to-use edition of Rastell's translation of More's Utopia.  (Thomas More Society)
• Utopia (Latin):  The Latin text of the 1516 edition.  (bibliotheca Augustana)
• SparkNotes:  Utopia:  A beginner's guide to the Utopia.  Includes biographical and historical background, a guide to characters, book-by-book summaries, etc.
• Approaches to Thomas More's Utopia:  Overview of critical approaches, focusing "on a variety of possible historical approaches one might take in the study of More's Utopia."  (Bob Barrie, Austin C.)
• A Bibliography of More's Utopia:  R. I. Lakowski's exhaustive and invaluable bibliography of scholarship.  Indispensable for research on the Utopia.  (Early Modern Literary Studies)

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Other Works

• The History of King Richard III:  More's biography of Richard III of England.  Written probably a few years before Utopia; one of the sources for Shakespeare's Richard III, and helped shape later views of that monarch.  (Renascence Editions)
• The Richard III and Yorkist History Server:  A different view of Richard III.  See especially the excerpted book chapters from Richard Marius and Jeremy Potter on the Thomas More page.  (Richard III Society)
• Epigrammata Thomae Mori Selecta:  Selections from More's Epigrams (poetry--in Latin).

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Biographies and Background Material

• William Roper:  The Life of Sir Thomas More:  Sixteenth-century biography of More by his son-in-law.  (Internet Medieval Sourcebook)
• John Farrow, The Story of Thomas More:  Book-length biography of More, available free on the web.  (I haven't had a chance to review it yet, but it seemed a shame to ignore it.)  (Catholic Information Network)
• Description of Thomas More by Erasmus:  Passage "taken from a 1519 letter in which Erasmus describes his good friend Thomas More."  Probably the classic contemporary character sketch of More.  
• Englishmen and the Classical Renaissance:  Sir Thomas More:  An older (but still useful) account of More in the context of European humanism.  From Vol. 3 of the Cambridge History of English and American Literature [1907-21 ed.]  (Project Bartelby)
• The Sir Thomas More Circle:  Lecture notes from Bob Barrie.  Contextualizes More in the Tudor humanist community, with particular attention to Erasmus and More's other friends.  (Austin C.)
• Introduction to Italian Humanism:  Bob Barrie's readable and useful overview of the humanist movement in Italy.  Very useful background for an understanding of Tudor humanism.  (Austin C.)

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Interpretation and Commentary

• James Wood, "Sir Thomas More:  A Man for One Season":  A response to Peter Ackroyd's biography of More.  Portrays More as narrowly doctrinal and authoritarian in his later years, rather than as the tolerant saint of some modern accounts.  (Luminarium)
• Richard Marius, Utopia as Mirror for a Life and Times:  An overview and interpretation of the second book of the Utopia by a major More scholar.  Presents Utopia as an imaginary state designed to control a sinful human nature, and as "a touchstone against which we try various ideas about both our times and the book to see what then comes of it all."  (Early Modern Literary Studies)
• The Dialogue in Book I of Utopia:  Chapter from R. I. Lakowski's dissertation on More's use of dialogue.  An excellent, thorough analysis of the first book of Utopia, including discussion of the prefatory letters, etc.  See also Lakowski's entire dissertation.  (Early Modern Literary Studies)
• H. Solomon Poretsky, "A Kindler, Gentler Republic:  The Effects of Plato's Republic on Thomas More's Utopia":  Student paper, contrasting the political, intellectual, and moral provisions of the Republic and the Utopia.  (Columbia U.)

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Images

• Portrait of Sir Thomas More:  By Hans Holbein the Younger, 1527.  (Patricia Bushnell, U. of Pennsylvania) 
• Sir Thomas More's Family (sketch)  (Patricia Bushnell, U. of Pennsylvania)
• Sir Thomas More's Family (painting):  Painting from the sketch above.  (Patricia Bushnell, U. of Pennsylvania)
• Sir Thomas More's Family (painting):  Painting of More's family, with a key to identifying the individuals in the picture.  (Thomas More Society)