Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk, and the executions of Thomas More and John Fisher are all here. Eventually he overreached himself in his patronage of evangelical preachers and in arranging Henry VIII’s marriage to Anne of Cleves, which played a crucial part in his fall and death in July ...
“failed” him while having a normal conversation with the man next to him, who is going to take the soon to be dead man’s place. Continuing the Henry the VIII comparison — in the first adaptation of the first two books, Thomas Cromwell watches the beheading of Anne Boleyn and then ...
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Who ultimately planned Anne Boleyn’s death? Why did political and religious enemies of Thomas Cromwell go to him in the months leading to Anne’s death, expecting his co-operation to restore Princess Mary? Did Jane Seymour have any significance, why did King Henry and Thomas Cromwell get int...
Thomas reflects on Chuck's death, telling Teresa about the promise he made to him. Thomas's enactment as a saviour of the Gladers and the resulting guilt, he experiences when he is unable to save his friend, are shown during the entire duration of the novel and Chuck’s death will ...
Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. Th' Applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade: nor circumscribed alone ...
Cranmer’s enemies – and there were many, whether inspired by envy or doctrinal disagreement – had several opportunities to destroy him. For instance, when Anne’s replacement Jane Seymour died in childbirth, the Protestant cause very nearly hit the buffers due to Cromwell’s arrangement of a...
昏昏铃铛响,远处羊群安。 Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wand'ring near her secret bow'r, Molest her ancient solitary reign. 唯有在那边,高塔青藤满, 忧郁猫头鹰,对月发怨言, ...
On this day in history, 11th October 1542, Tudor poet, Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder, died at Sherborne in Dorset. Wyatt was just 39 years old at his death but
Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of death? 棺椁雕生平,塑像留容颜, 魂魄悠悠去,能召回身转? 荣勋若有声,可引骨灰言? 死亡冷漠耳,颂赞岂可安? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, ...