Do you know of any fiction (both published and fanfiction) that portrays Thomas More as the giant, sadistic hypocrite that he was? He wrote Utopia about among other things religious tolerance, but then whipped people in his own garden and burnt people alive for having different views than him. But all fiction seems to portray him as this wise, pacifistic humanist🙄

I guess I’d say Wolf Hall, except imo that goes too far in the other direction (for almost everyone…that is, villainizing/stupidifying figures to ridiculous amount to make Cromwell look a) better and b) more intelligent, which is kind of unnecessary for the latter– his genius is pretty well-recognized, imo– and a bit of a reach for the former…he was ruthless when he felt he needed to be for self-preservation, which isn’t that much different from many powerful figures of the Tudor court). 

As for fics, none of my fav’s really even have more than a passing mention of him…he’s not in the character tags, for instance.Â