Who is responsible for More's death in A Man for All Seasons?Explain with more in-depth detail.

I assume that you are referring to the death of Sir Thomas
More as depicted in the play, A Man for all Seasons, by Robert
Bolt, which has also been made into a movie. Although this play is based on the real
life of Thomas More, Chancellor of England, the playright has used "poetic license" to
infuse his own political thoughts into the action, so not everything that occurs in the
play is necessarily historically accurate. That, said, back to your
question.

In the play, Sir Thomas More, an important
government official and back in those days, affiliated with the Church of England,
refused to sanction King Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon so that he could
marry his mistress, Anne Boleyn. More believed that this would be a sin because the
church did not sanction divorce. More's opponents included King Henry, Cromwell, Wolsey,
Cranmer, Chapuys, and Norfolk. In the play, they are depicted as being either corrupt,
evil, and/or power-hungry, more concerned with pandering to the king and thus keeping
their earthly power. More contends he answers to a higher
power.

In the play, the Spanish get involved because
Catherine is a Spanish princess. They plot to attack the king, telling More about it
hoping he will agree with them. More informs Norfolk of the plot, however, showing
loyalty to the King. More also refuses to speak against the king, and in the play, it
appears that Cromwell prosecutes him out of personal spite. Cromwell is the major
antagonist in the play. Eventually, More is executed after a convoluted series of legal
maneuvers for breaking the law.

You will no doubt receive
several opinions as to who is responsible for More's death, but my opinion is that it is
King Henry VIII. If he had not been so intent on having a son, no matter what it took,
the entire affair would not have even taken place. There would have been no attempted
divorce, there would have been no break with the church of England, and there would have
been no subject matter for the play in the first place. Henry was king and the buck
stops there. The way the monarchy was set up in those days, the king could have done
pretty much what he wanted, including stay the
execution.

Thomas More was eventually made a saint in the
Catholic Church.