‘An element of danger’: Hilary Mantel on adapting The Mirror and the Light for stage - News Summed Up

‘An element of danger’: Hilary Mantel on adapting The Mirror and the Light for stage


“I have to say, I think I’ve given Thomas Cromwell a better audience, a better airing, a better public than historians have managed to do through the ages,” she told the Guardian. Historians have previously expressed concern that the books are seen as fact by some of their students. You won’t go far wrong if you want to know about Thomas Cromwell by reading those books. We would pass our drafts to and fro, getting them to work and then polish them up line by line. “We had to be good clerks to each other.”Ben Miles as Thomas Cromwell in Bring Up the Bodies in 2014.


Source: The Guardian May 21, 2021 04:52 UTC



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