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Fiction set in the 1530s

  • Anna BolenaFelice Romani crafted the libretto for Anna Bolena after reading Ippolito Pindemonte's Enrico VIII ossia Anna Bolena and Alessandro Pepoli's Anna Bolena.
  • Bring Up the BodiesIn the private chambers of Wolf Hall, King Henry VIII speaks to Thomas Cromwell with a voice heavy with exhaustion. The monarch declares that he cannot live…
  • The Other Boleyn GirlIn 1521 England, Queen Catherine of Aragon had been married to King Henry VIII for two decades yet produced only one daughter.