Wolf Hall & Bring Up the Bodies. Hilary Mantel

      WOLF HALL

      and BRING UP THE BODIES

       Adapted for the stage by

      Mike Poulton

       From the novels by

      Hilary Mantel

       With an introduction by Mike Poultonand character notes by Hilary Mantel

      NICK HERN BOOKS

      HarperCollinsPublishers

       www.nickhernbooks.co.uk www.4thestate.co.uk

      Copyright and Performing Rights Information

       A Fourth Estate and Nick Hern Book

      These stage adaptations of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies first published in Great Britain as a paperback original in 2014 jointly by Fourth Estate, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street, London SE1 9GF

      This revised edition published in 2014

      This ebook edition first published in 2014

      Wolf Hall (novel) copyright © 2009 Tertius Enterprises Ltd Bring Up the Bodies (novel) copyright © 2012 Tertius Enterprises Ltd Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies (two plays) copyright © 2013, 2014 Mike Poulton and Tertius Enterprises Ltd Introduction copyright © 2014 Mike Poulton Notes on Characters copyright © 2014 Tertius Enterprises Ltd

      The right of Hilary Mantel and Mike Poulton to be identified as the authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1998

      Cover image: Nathaniel Parker as King Henry, Ben Miles as Thomas Cromwell and Lydia Leonard as Anne Boleyn; photograph by Johan Persson, designed by Studio Typecast

      Cover design by Ned Hoste, 2H

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      Source ISBN: 9780007590148

      Ebook © JULY 2014 ISBN: 9780007590155

      Version 2019-06-10

       Contents

       Title Page

       Copyright and Performing Rights Information

       Original Production

       Introduction by Mike Poulton

       Notes on Characters by Hilary Mantel

       Characters

       Dedication

       Wolf Hall

       Bring Up the Bodies

       About the Authors

       About the Publisher

      These adaptations of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies were originally commissioned by Playful Productions and were first produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, on 11 December 2013. The productions transferred to the Aldwych Theatre, London, on 1 May 2014, presented by Matthew Byam Shaw, Nia Janis and Nick Salmon for Playful Productions and the Royal Shakespeare Company, Bartner/Tulchin Productions and Georgia Gatti for Playful Productions. The cast was as follows:

MARK SMEATON	Joey Batey
CHARLES BRANDON, DUKE OF SUFFOLK	Nicholas Boulton
KATHERINE OF ARAGON/JANE BOLEYN, LADY ROCHFORD	Lucy Briers
JANE SEYMOUR/PRINCESS MARY/LADY WORCESTER	Leah Brotherhead
MARY BOLEYN/LIZZIE WYKYS/MARY SHELTON	Olivia Darnley
THOMAS HOWARD, DUKE OF NORFOLK	Nicholas Day
ENSEMBLE	Mathew Foster
GREGORY CROMWELL	Daniel Fraser
BARGE MASTER/WOLSEY’S SERVANT	Benedict Hastings
LADY IN WAITING/MAID/MARJORIE SEYMOUR	Madeleine Hyland
CARDINAL WOLSEY/SIR JOHN SEYMOUR/SIR WILLIAM KINGSTON/ARCHBISHOP WARHAM	Paul Jesson
ANNE BOLEYN	Lydia Leonard
ENSEMBLE	Robert MacPherson
THOMAS CROMWELL	Ben Miles
CHRISTOPHE/FRANCIS WESTON	Pierro Niél Mee
KING HENRY VIII	Nathaniel Parker
GEORGE BOLEYN, LORD ROCHFORD/EDWARD SEYMOUR	Oscar Pearce
STEPHEN GARDINER/EUSTACHE CHAPUYS	Matthew Pidgeon
THOMAS MORE/HENRY NORRIS	John Ramm
HARRY PERCY/WILLIAM BRERETON	Nicholas Shaw
RAFE SADLER	Joshua Silver
THOMAS CRANMER/THOMAS BOLEYN/PACKINGTON/FRENCH AMBASSADOR	Giles Taylor
THOMAS WYATT/HEADSMAN	Jay Taylor
MUSICIANS	Rob Millett,Greg Knowles,Adam CrossDario Rossetti-BonellCatherine Groom
All other parts played by members of the company.
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