Hilary Mantel's two Thomas Cromwell novels have captured an enormous new readership for history with their crackling sense of place and immediacy of tension - the plays created on them, now brought to London by the Royal Shakespeare Company, are relishable creations of different virtues. Mantel's exquisitely detailed, emotionally penetrating descriptions of weather, place or internal worries aren't to be found.…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:22PM on May 17, 2014