![]() ![]() Mantel creates a world entirely through the perspective of Cromwell. ( Supplied: Ed Miller/Playground & Company Pictures) ![]() The first two novels in the Thomas Cromwell trilogy have been adapted into a BBC miniseries titled Wolf Hall, starring Mark Rylance. The way he revisits her execution in his memory is not quite regret he examines the impact of his action ponders what happens to women knows what he has done for his King. She was brought down by scandal and letters, sidelong glances and supposed sexual misdemeanours, and by the machinations of Cromwell himself. Not present at births or executions or funerals.īut if the King is absent, the late Queen is not: she keeps appearing she is taken apart, unstitched, remade for the next incumbent. Cromwell knew there was no point waiting for a king who was always elsewhere. Anne was looking backwards, hoping the King might intervene. One head is swept off with a sword inscribed in Latin, the other feels the weight of an axe. ![]() We are inside his head, and then that head is removed. The first is Anne Boleyn, second wife to Henry VIII the second is Thomas Cromwell, adviser to the King - and our eyes on this period. Hilary Mantel's novel The Mirror And The Light begins and ends with an execution. ![]()
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