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Setting Tudor-fans hearts a-fluttering: Wolf Hall and Shakespeare again

Posted on January 15, 2015 by Sylvia Morris

On 21 January 2015 the BBC’s 6-part adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize-winning novels about Thomas Cromwell, Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies, begins. Jane Garvey, in Woman’s Hour, said it had “set Tudor-fans hearts a-fluttering”, and publishers … Continue reading →

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Thomas Cromwell from page to stage: Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies

Posted on January 27, 2014 by Sylvia Morris

The plays based on Hilary Mantel’s books Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies have been successful both at the box office and in the media. This period of history, Henry VIII’s courtship of Anne Boleyn, divorce from Catherine of … Continue reading →

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Exit, pursued by a bear? Bear-baiting in Shakespeare’s London

Posted on January 13, 2013 by Sylvia Morris

On Sunday 13 January 1583 one of the bear-baiting arenas that had stood on the Thames’s south bank collapsed. Bear-baiting was a popular spectacle for all kinds of people: both Henry VIII and Elizabeth 1 enjoyed the “sport” in which … Continue reading →

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