Historical revisionism in Wolf Hall : redeeming Thomas Cromwell

• Main Author: Lim, Stella Huei Lin
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/59293
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Contesting against the dark portrayals of Cromwell in most historical records, Hilary Mantel intervenes into conventional historical understanding of his character and attempts to conduct a historical revisionism of the Tudor villain by contextualising his evil deeds in order to moderate and justify...