Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as Henry VIII in the TV series The Tudors
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Understanding genre is crucial to all literary study
The 2009 Booker prize was won by the hot favourite, Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall, the first part of a proposed two-volume portrait of Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s ‘minister of everything’. It covers the years 1527 (the fall of Cardinal Wolsey) to 1535 (the execution of Thomas More, the ‘man for all seasons’). Still to come are the trial and execution of Anne Boleyn (which Cromwell engineered), the dissolution of the monasteries, and Cromwell’s fatal own goal when he sponsored Henry’s marriage to Anne of Cleves.
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