“What though I am a man of firmness and vigour, fortune is mutable and either my enemies will do me or my friends.” So muses narrator Thomas Cromwell in Hilary Mantel’s thrilling new historical novel ...
Thomas Cromwell hadn’t exactly fallen off the historical radar in the five centuries since he lost his head to Henry VIII, but he has enjoyed even wider recent fame thanks to Hilary Mantel’s novels ...
“Talk to me before you believe anything!”, Thomas Cromwell (played by Mark Rylance) tells his monarch and master Henry VIII (played by Damien Lewis) in a pivotal scene in the penultimate episode of ...
The new production, airing on Masterpiece and shot on location throughout England, traces the final four years of Thomas Cromwell, depicted by Mark Rylance. Damian Lewis portrays King Henry VIII.