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 Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 1:14 pm |
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(Wall Street Journal) - Although less famous than his great-
great-grandnephew Oliver, Thomas Cromwell is well-known,
thanks to the enduring fascination of Henry VIII and the
Tudor court. Cromwell is of course a memorable villain in
the play and movie "A Man for All Seasons" — the royal
minister who, cruelly advancing Henry's break with Rome,
hounds Thomas More for a loyalty oath that he will not
give. Cromwell naturally figured in "King Henry VIII and
His Six Wives" (1972), the popular Masterpiece Theater
version of these events, and he reappears these days, as
dry and determined as ever, in the over-heated HBO series
"The Tudors." But for all the portraits of this 16th-
century power broker in print and on screen — not to
mention in the history books, where he is a central figure
in the history of Protestant triumphalism — Cromwell has
never before appeared as he does in Hilary Mantel's dense,
finely wrought "Wolf Hall," (Amazon.com:
http://xrl.us/WolfHall ) the winner of this year's Man
Booker Prize in Britain..
Continued: http://xrl.us/WolfHallReview |
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