Posted on 05/02/2015 9:25:34 AM PDT by NRx
“Wolf Hall,” the Man Booker Prize-winning historical novel about the court of Henry VIII — and most dramatically, the conflict between Thomas Cromwell and Sir Thomas More — is now a TV series (presented on PBS). It is maddeningly good.
Maddening because its history is tendentiously distorted, yet the drama is so brilliantly conceived and executed that you almost don’t care. Faced with an imaginative creation of such brooding, gripping, mordant intensity, you find yourself ready to pay for it in historical inaccuracy.
And “Wolf Hall’s” revisionism is breathtaking. It inverts the conventional view of the saintly More being undone by the corrupt, amoral, serpentine Cromwell, the king’s chief minister. This is fiction as polemic. Author Hilary Mantel, an ex- and anti-Catholic (“the Catholic Church is not an institution for respectable people”), has set out to rehabilitate Cromwell and defenestrate More, most especially the More of Robert Bolt’s beautiful and hagiographic “A Man for All Seasons.”
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Leni
Catholics have a tendency to deny the reformation and all that goes with it as being truth
“Catholics have a tendency to deny the reformation and all that goes with it as being truth”
Nope. Catholics have a tendency to deny the Protestant Revolutionaries promoted the truth. We do so because they promoted heresy.
still wrong after 500 years
“still wrong after 500 years”
Protestantism is, yes.
I just bought this series.
I have watched all but the last episode. It really is maddingly good.
PS. still sorting out the history, but there you have it.
He really is the strutting peacock, isn't he?
I haven't seen the Outlander series, but based on your recommendations, I will look it up.
Faced with an imaginative creation of such brooding, gripping, mordant intensity, you find yourself ready to pay for it in historical inaccuracy.
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No sale here, Charles.
People were killed by Henry VIII, when he died his catholic daughter by Catherine of Aragon, retaliated killing a lot of people (hence the name “Bloody Mary”), Elizabeth killed some too, but not nearly as many.
One of the risks of posting or pinging a topic about English history from about Richard III on up to about James I/VI is the sectarian turmoil. :')
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