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Riveting, dynamic and bloody good fun – Wolf Hall is back after a 10-year wait

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. That’s where Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, the second and final chapter in the BBC’s adaptation of the late Hilary Mantel’s historical novels, comes in. Slinking about behind the king, working as a fixer for the personal, political and religious matters of the day, is Thomas Cromwell, Henry’s “dog”. From his origins as a blacksmith’s son in Putney, Cromwell is now Lord Privy Seal – one of England’s richest men and most eligible bachelors. King of the Hall: Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell and Damian Lewis as Henry VIII “You feel the axe’s edge,” Princess Mary tells Lord Cromwell, in the meeting that will eventually undo him.

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6 days, 17 hours ago

In the long-awaited sequel to "Wolf Hall," mortality stalks Cromwell's conscience

Salon

Here's Thomas Cromwell at New York's Frick Collection, trapped in canvas by the Tudor court painter Hans Holbein: thick fingers gripping a secret missive, thin lips curled into a truculent frown, shrewd little eyes seeming to bore into the portrait of Saint Thomas More, who is sitting just across the other side of a mantelpiece. In Mantel's Tudor trilogy, adapted …

1 week, 2 days ago

Rags-to-riches hero or villainous torturer? The truth about Henry VIII's scheming right-hand man Thomas Cromwell

BBC

Rags-to-riches hero or villainous torturer? The truth about Henry VIII's scheming right-hand man Thomas Cromwell Just now Share Save Clare McHugh Share Save National Portrait Gallery With her award-winning Wolf Hall series of books, novelist Hilary Mantel made sympathetic a figure long considered a historical bad guy. Going forward, Cromwell's name will likely call to mind the lean, canny look …

3 months, 1 week ago

Wolf Hall house that stood in for Hampton Court Palace in the hit BBC drama could be yours for £2.5million

Daily Mail

With its imposing facade and stone-flagged great hall, it is a home fit for a king. Small wonder, then, that when the producers of Wolf Hall, the hit TV adaptation of Dame Hilary Mantel's historical novels, needed to recreate Hampton Court Palace, one of the houses they turned to was Barrow Court in Somerset. Barrow Court in Somerset was among …

3 months, 1 week ago

Wolf Hall: BBC viewers praise ‘superb’ season finale of the ‘masterpiece’ historical drama

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Wolf Hall returned to screens with its latest instalment, which The Independent’s Nick Hilton dubbed …

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Wolf Hall: The Mirror And The Light fans call out 'unbearable' part of BBC drama as latest episode leaves them watching through their fingers

Daily Mail

The BBC's Wolf Hall: The Mirror And The Light viewers were hooked on the show's latest episode as they watched Thomas Cromwell's continued downfall. The historical drama follows Thomas, played by Mark Rylance, as he spends his final four years as King Henry VIII's political advisor. The BBC's Wolf Hall: The Mirror And The Light viewers were hooked on the …

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Wolf Hall: BBC viewers celebrate as acclaimed drama returns after nine years

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Mantel, who died in 2022, released The Mirror and the Light in 2020, following on …

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Riveting, dynamic and bloody good fun – Wolf Hall is back after a 10-year wait

The Independent

4 months, 3 weeks ago

Wolf Hall director defiantly defends colourblind casting as BBC period drama returns to screens after nine years with spin-off series The Mirror And The Light

Daily Mail

The director of Wolf Hall has defended the colour-blind casting of Tudor characters, saying they chose the 'very best actors' and pointing out that they are not playing 'lookalikes' of the real people. Based on Dame Hilary Mantel's novel of the same name Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light picks up where the last series ended, with Oscar winning …

1 year, 11 months ago

Hilary Mantel was ‘a treasure of this nation’, celebration of author’s life told

The Independent

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2 years, 6 months ago

Hilary Mantel death: Which of Wolf Hall author’s books were adapted for the TV and theatre?

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3 years, 5 months ago

The Mirror and the Light review: A thrilling conclusion to Hilary Mantel’s historical trilogy

The Independent

The Mirror and the Light dramatises – supremely well – the concluding volume in Hilary Mantel’s award-winning trilogy about Thomas Cromwell, the son of a Putney blacksmith who rose to be the fixer-in-chief at the court of King Henry VIII. These ranged, I argued, “from the atmospheric richness of Mantel’s prose to flashbacks to formative experiences in Cromwell’s past such …

4 years, 5 months ago

Five books to read if you love portraits of historical figures

The Independent

5 years ago

Hilary Mantel's The Mirror And The Light brings her Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell historical fiction trilogy to an end

ABC

The final volume of Hilary Mantel's epic and wildly successful Thomas Cromwell trilogy has finally landed in bookstores — a whopping eight years after the second instalment, Bring Up The Bodies — with copies on sale from Thursday. Told through the perspective of Thomas Cromwell, King Henry VIII's right-hand man, The Mirror And The Light begins in London in May …

5 years, 1 month ago

Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror & the Light review: Wolf Hall trilogy-closer is a masterpiece of historical fiction

The Independent

9 years, 10 months ago

The magic of "Wolf Hall": The exquisite (and chilling) details that bring history to life

Salon

Everyone in “Wolf Hall” is always wearing a hat. In “Wolf Hall,” the BBC Two production that is finishing its six-episode limited run on PBS’s Masterpiece tonight, when you see the crown of anyone’s head, unobstructed, it’s a moment of humility and vulnerability. Hilary Mantel’s novels on Henry VIII’s adviser Thomas Cromwell, “Wolf Hall” and “Bring Up the Bodies,” are …

10 years, 1 month ago

Wolf Hall episode 3, TV review: Sexual tension undermines the political shenanigans as the BBC drama really hits its stride

The Independent

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. An episode that Machiavelli himself would describe as "a bit much", …

10 years, 2 months ago

Wolf Hall review: An imperious Mark Rylance revels in darkness in Hilary Mantel adaptation

The Independent

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy In just under six years since its …

10 years, 2 months ago

Wolf Hall: Damian Lewis and Mark Rylance on bringing the intrigue of the Tudor court to life

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Writer Peter Straughan and director Peter Kosminsky’s engrossing adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Booker-winning novels Wolf …

11 years, 2 months ago

Wolf Hall/Bring Up the Bodies, theatre review: 'Exhilarating stage-craft and masterly narrative compression'

The Independent

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12 years, 10 months ago

Book review: ‘Bring Up the Bodies’ is a compelling re-creation

LA Times

Bring Up the Bodies A Novel Hilary Mantel Henry Holt: 432 pp., $28 Hilary Mantel’s novel about the Tudor political puppet-master supremo Thomas Cromwell, “Wolf Hall,” winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize for fiction, was so richly packed with character and action that it was bound to burst its banks. The good news is that it is more than …

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