Should you have plans for Wednesday night, cancel them now. Why the BBC’s Unmissable Wolf Hall Could Be the Greatest Period Drama Ever Madeīy Christopher Stevens – The Daily Mail – 15 January 2015 Things can get ugly around the palace, for sure, but most of the time the messes are hidden behind an elegant veneer of dignity.Ĭontinue reading In the Realm of TV Entertainment, Royal Dramas Reign – Feb 28, 2019 But for me, it’s fascinating to watch lives constrained by rigid social and dynastic rules, as messy human needs struggle against ancient policies. For some viewers, royal dramas, like period novel adaptations, are too staid, too mired in the subtleties of their indirect exchanges to be entertaining. These shows are just what the Anglophile TV doctor ordered, a spot of tea as the cure for the uncountably many grim crime-solving dramas and superhero spectacles elsewhere on the schedule. There’s treachery, there are big castles, and at the center of it all there is the distorted psychology of a person who has inherited, not necessarily earned, a position closer to God than we mere mortals. They’re like “Succession,” HBO’s Murdoch family send-up, except with a majestic makeover, more servants, and at least one crown. They marry history to warped family dynamics, and they’re generally quite pretty and transporting. Read the rest of the original article at Daily Mailīy Matthew Gilbert | Boston Globe | February 28, 2019 In the poll, second place went to Rosemary Sutcliff’s Roman adventure story The Eagle of the Ninth and third to Dorothy Dunnett’s The Game of Kings.
The Walter Scott Prize came up with a shortlist of ten novels to celebrate its tenth anniversary. The novels were successfully adapted for TV with Claire Foy starring as Anne Boleyn, Damian Lewis as Henry VIII and Mark Rylance as Cromwell. Mantel’s second book in the saga, Bring Up the Bodies, was published in 2012 and also won the Booker Prize. Wolf Hall, published in 2009, tells the story of Thomas Cromwell’s rise to power in the court of King Henry VIII and has sold 1,027,278 copies across all print editions.
The Booker Prize-winning book was voted top in a poll, just months before Mantel’s eagerly-awaited conclusion to her Tudor trilogy – The Mirror and the Light – is released. So perhaps it should come as little surprise that Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall has been named as Britain’s favourite historical novel. When it comes to royal history, you can’t beat the Tudors for scandal and intrigue – though the Windsors are putting in a spirited effort.
By Eleanor Sharples | Daily Mail | January 20, 2020
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