Wolf Hall

” Now behold Wolf Hall, the PBS adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s prizewinning examinations of the selfsame era, Wolf Hall (2009) and Bring Up the Bodies (2012). Mantel’s stories are told from the perspective of Thomas Cromwell, one of the era’s major players. The adaptation is restrained, nuanced, and…

…were also developed as a 2015 television miniseries. The television adaptation featured Mark Rylance in a BAFTA-winning turn as Cromwell, with Damian Lewis as a mercurial Henry and Clare Foy as Anne Boleyn. In 2020 Mantel published the final installment in the trilogy, The Mirror & the Light, which chronicles…

…Cromwell in the British miniseries Wolf Hall, based on the novels by Hilary Mantel about the rise of Cromwell in the court of King Henry VIII. That same year Holland starred with Chris Hemsworth and Cillian Murphy in Ron Howard’s action adventure film In the Heart of the Sea, which…

…alcoholic, and Thomas Cromwell in Wolf Hall (2015) and its sequel, Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light (2024), adaptations of Hilary Mantel’s three novels about the rise and fall of Cromwell in the court of King Henry VIII.