![]() “It’s certainly going to be Wolf Hall wall-to-wall, isn’t it?” Mantel says with a birdlike laugh.Īt first or even second glance, the sprawling Wolf Hall books wouldn’t seem an obvious fit for the stage. But first there are the critically heralded Royal Shakespeare Company stage productions of the novels, which, after wildly successful runs at Stratford-upon-Avon and on the West End, arrive in two parts on Broadway this month, bringing the particular mix of highbrow cachet and juicy storytelling that makes for a big-ticket event. Now Mantel is working on the feverishly anticipated third book of the trilogy, The Mirror & the Light, while the earlier two are soon to debut on PBS as a six-part miniseries starring the peerless Mark Rylance. Mantel, of course, is the English writer who, after 25 years as an acclaimed if not-quite-chart-topping author of fiction, criticism, and memoir, set the literary world on fire in 2009 with her Tudor-era historical novel Wolf Hall and its 2012 sequel Bring Up the Bodies, which earned her Man Booker Prizes (she is the first woman to win twice) and planted flags atop best-seller lists. ![]() ![]() Hilary Mantel is having what might be called a moment-albeit one with staying power. ![]()
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