FEMINISM, THEATRE, AND HISTORICAL FICTION: Anna of Cleves in 2021

• Autores: Elisabeth Dutton
• Localización: Medieval English theatre, ISSN 0143-3784, Nº. 43, 2022, págs. 224-236
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • As theatres cautiously reopened in Autumn 2021, post-lockdown, across the country, tickets went on sale for Hilary Mantel’s dramatization of her novel The Mirror and the Light, playing at London’s Gielgud Theatre from September. The final volume of Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy perhaps demonstrates most clearly the novelist’s unique capacity to write historical figures who feel familiar, to reveal the past as challengingly continuous with the present. For Mantel, her novels tell history as political, for ‘There is no life without politics’.¹ But as the success of the dramatic adaptations of the first two Cromwell novels, Olivier- and Tony-award-winning Wolf...