In the culmination of the Hilary Mantel adaptation, Mark Rylance’s Thomas Cromwell becomes a more poignant figure, weighed ...

If you’ve forgotten who’s who among the characters who make up the action in award-winning adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall, it’s completely understandable—after all, it’s been ...

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The Mirror and the Light recently premiered in the US, almost a decade after the release of its predecessor, Wolf Hall.

Henry VIII was brought up as a devout Catholic. In the early years of his reign he attended mass five times a day and his most trusted adviser was the head of the Catholic Church in England ...