![]() ![]() This volume contains the text of the play and an introduction by Hilary Mantel on each of the principal characters and their fates, offering a unique new insight into her trilogy and an invaluable resource to any theatre companies wishing to stage the play.Īlso available: Wolf Hall & Bring Up the Bodies (stage version). It opened in London's West End in September 2021, directed by Jeremy Herrin, co-produced by Playful Productions and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and with Miles returning to the role of Cromwell. Following Olivier and Tony Award-winning productions of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, hailed as a landmark and must-see theatrical event on both sides of the Atlantic, Mantel and Ben Miles have adapted the trilogy's exhilarating conclusion, The Mirror and the Light, for the stage. Hilary Mantel's twice Booker Prize-winning trilogy is the outstanding literary achievement of recent times. But what will you do, an astute witness asks, when the king turns on you, as sooner or later he turns on everyone close to him? The Mirror & the Light covers four years of Cromwell’s life, from 1536 to 1540. Thomas Cromwell, the blacksmith's son from the gutters of Putney, has knocked down everyone in his path: established at the right hand of the king, he is now the second most powerful man in England. ![]() It now befalls Jane Seymour to deliver King Henry VIII the healthy heir he craves. Anne Boleyn's fate has been sealed by a hired French executioner. It can be purchased from 4th Estate and all good book retailers.Įngland, May 1536. ![]() Please note: this title is not available through this website. ![]()
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