http://www.thetudorswiki.com//index.php?title=Depictions_of_Thomas_Cromwell_in_Literature&feed=atom&action=historyDepictions of Thomas Cromwell in Literature - Revision history2024-03-29T02:22:08ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.35.1http://www.thetudorswiki.com//index.php?title=Depictions_of_Thomas_Cromwell_in_Literature&diff=32455&oldid=prevTravis: Created page with "<div class="WPC-editableContent"><br/><br/><table align="bottom" cellpadding="3" class="WPC-edit-style-grid1 WPC-edit-border-all WPC-edit-styleData-color1=%23191919&color2..."2020-11-13T07:50:32Z<p>Created page with "<div class="WPC-editableContent"><br/><br/><table align="bottom" cellpadding="3" class="WPC-edit-style-grid1 WPC-edit-border-all WPC-edit-styleData-color1=%23191919&color2..."</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div><div class="WPC-editableContent"><br/><br/><table align="bottom" cellpadding="3" class="WPC-edit-style-grid1 WPC-edit-border-all WPC-edit-styleData-color1=%23191919&amp;color2=%23474747" width="100%"> <tr> <td class="" width="50%"> <div align="center"> </div> <div align="center"> <font face="Garamond" size="5"><i>Wolf Hall </i></font><br/><br/></div> <div align="center"> <font face="Garamond" size="5">by Hilary Mantel</font><br/><br/></div> <div align="center"> </div> <div align="center"> [[File:2sPbetzTupGmDHaNT9-ETQ12727.jpeg|230px|'Wolf Hall' by Hilary Mantel]]<br/><br/><br/><br/><i>Wolf Hall </i>by Hilary Mantel is the first novel to position Thomas Cromwell as a central character and imagine Tudor England through his eyes. In this first of a proposed two books, Mantel deftly strips away the myths attached to Cromwell's reputation and instead envisages him as a progressive rationalist with surprisingly modern ideals.<br/><br/><br/></div> <div align="center"> </div> <div align="center"> Cover description:<br/><br/></div> <div align="center"> </div> <div align="center"> 'England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years, and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe oppose him. The quest for the petulant king's freedom destroys his advisor, the brilliant Cardinal Wolsey, and leaves a power vacuum and a deadlock.<br/><br/></div> <div align="center"> </div> <div align="center"> Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell. Son of a brutal blacksmith, a political genius, a briber, a bully and a charmer, Cromwell has broken all the rules of a rigid society in his rise to power, and is prepared to break some more. Rising from the ashes of personal disaster - the loss of his young family and of Wolsey, his beloved patron - he picks his way through a court where 'man is wolf to man'. Pitting himself against parliament, the political establishment and the papacy, he is prepared to reshape England to his own and Henry's desires.</div> <div align="center"> <br/></div> <div align="center"> From one of our finest living writers, <i>Wolf Hall </i>is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel, one that explores the intersection of individual psychology and wider politics. With a vast array of characters, and richly overflowing with incident, it peels back history to show us Tudor England as a half-made society, moulding England moulding itself with great passion and suffering and courage.'</div> <div align="center"> </div> <div align="center"> </div></td> <td class="" width="50%"> <br/><br/><div align="center"> <font face="Garamond" size="5">Reviews for <i>Wolf Hall</i></font><br/><br/></div> <div align="center"> </div> <div align="center"> <i><font face="Garamond" size="5"><a class="external" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/apr/26/hilary-mantel-wolf-hall" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="The Tudors' finest portraitist yet">The Tudors' finest portraitist yet</a></font></i></div> <div align="center"> <font face="Garamond"><font size="5">Olivia Laing, <i>The Observer</i></font></font><br/><br/></div> <div align="center"> </div> <div align="center"> </div> <div align="center"> <a class="external" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/may/02/wolf-hall-hilary-mantel" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Henry's fighting dog"><font face="Garamond" size="5"><i>Henry's fighting dog</i></font></a></div> <div align="center"> <font face="Garamond" size="5">Christopher Taylor, <i>The Guardian</i></font><br/><br/></div> <div align="center"> </div> <div align="center"> </div> <div align="center"> <a class="external" href="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/fiction/article6160192.ece" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="'Wolf Hall' by Hilary Mantel"><font face="Garamond" size="5"><i>'Wolf Hall' by Hilary Mantel</i></font></a></div> <div align="center"> <font face="Garamond" size="5">Vanora Bennett, <i>The Times</i></font><br/><br/></div> <div align="center"> </div> <div align="center"> </div> <div align="center"> <a class="external" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/5207969/Hilary-Mantel.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Hilary Mantel"><font face="Garamond" size="5"><i>Hilary Mantel</i></font></a></div> <div align="center"> <font face="Garamond" size="5">Claudia FitzHerbert, <i>The Telegraph</i></font><br/><br/></div> <div align="center"> </div> <div align="center"> </div> <div align="center"> <a class="external" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/5206724/Wolf-Hall-by-Hilary-Mantel-review.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="'Wolf Hall' by Hilary Mantel: review"><font face="Garamond" size="5"><i>'Wolf Hall' by Hilary Mantel: review</i></font></a></div> <div align="center"> <font face="Garamond" size="5">Lucy Hughes-Hallett, <i>The Telegraph</i></font><br/> <br/> <br/>[[http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article6105341.ece?token=null&offset=0&page=1|Thomas Cromwell, perhaps not such a villain?]]<br/><font face="Garamond" size="5">Hilary Mantel, <i>The Times</i></font><br/></div></td></tr> <tr> <td class="" width="50%"> [[File:HAkxL7liKYnkXTS1SuzOYA40474.jpeg|361px|Dissolution]]</td> <td class="" width="50%"> Henry VIII has proclaimed himself Supreme Head of the Church and the country is waking up to savage new laws, rigged trials and the greatest network of informers ever seen. Under the order of Thomas Cromwell, a team of commissioners is sent through the country to investigate the monasteries. There can only be one outcome: the monasteries are to be dissolved. But on the Sussex coast, at the monastery of Scarnsea, events have spiralled out of control. Cromwell's Commissioner Robin Singleton, has been found dead, his head severed from his body. His horrific murder is accompanied by equally sinister acts of sacrilege - a black cockerel sacrificed on the alter, and the disappearance of Scarnsea's Great Relic. Dr Matthew Shardlake, lawyer and long-time supporter of Reform, has been sent by Cromwell into this atmosphere of treachery and death. But Shardlake's investigation soon forces him to question everything he hears, and everything that he intrinsically believes ...</td></tr></table><br/></div></div>Travis