When Adam delved and Eve span / Who was then the gentleman? (24): The first time we heard this ditty was at the end of Wolf Hall (in Part 6, 'Supremacy'). This is taken from a sermon by John Ball, a 14th century priest who predates the better-known John Wycliffe as a reforming influence in… Continue reading TM&tL: Part I, Chapter 2, ‘Salvage’
This post also includes notes to some of the front material, too.
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Discussion of Part I, Chapter 1, of Bring Up the Bodies
All page numbers refer to the 2012 hardback edition of Bring Up the Bodies, published by Henry Holt and Company, LLC. Chapter I ‘Am I not a man like other men? Am I not? Am I not?’ (ix) Before we get to the novel, before we even get to the Dramatis Personæ or table of… Continue reading Mike’s Marginalia: Bring Up the Bodies, Part I, Chapter 1
Part 1 ("Across the Narrow Sea" | "Paternity" | "At Austin Friars") Playback | Notes Part 2 ("Visitation" | "An Occult History of Britain" | "Make or Mar") Playback | Notes Part 3 ("Three-Card Trick" | "Entirely Beloved Cromwell" | The Dead Complain of Their Burial") Playback | Notes Part 4 ("Arrange Your Face" | "Alas, What Shall I… Continue reading Wolf Hall: Notes and Recordings
A thesis that I carry to everything I read is this: all writing -- literally ::all:: writing -- has an agenda. Whether it's a novel, a historical account, a shopping list, or an essay. History is not fact, it's conjecture.
The Cromwell Trilogy 