Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Fortunately for Hilary Mantel, the Seymour family named their 16th century Wiltshire manor house Wulfhall, providing a juicy name for her historical novel about the career of Thomas Cromwell amid the bloody matrimonial, religious and political thickets of the reign of Henry VIII.
“Wolf Hall” is Ms. Mantel’s title for the first volume of a trilogy; the second is “Bring Up the Bodies”; the third hasn’t yet been published. In different adaptations of those first two volumes, one (by Mike Poulton) now brought to the Broadway stage by the Royal Shakespeare Company, and another (by Peter Straughan) brought to TV by the BBC and PBS, “Wolf Hall” serves as the title of the whole thing.
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