You didn’t have to be literate to understand a play. The mystery plays were very popular, and in certain places getting increasingly professional. Theatre might still be in its infancy but it’s a great plan. And then there were the fancy allegorical pageants held at court, which at this time were far more about the costumes and the dancing and being seen than the few lines of dialogue they contained. There were also a few, a very few, groups of traveling players.
Plays at this point meant mystery plays for the common people- ‘What part of ye Holy Bible shall the village dramatise this year?’.
This is all pre-Shakespeare and proper drama as we would know it. They should find ways to promote the new monarchy, and he thinks producing some plays could be very effective. Henry is suitably scandalised by the news.Ĭromwell then goes to the positive. This famous relic was denounced as being regularly renewed duck’s blood. In this case he’s going after a well known and early target of the reformers – The Holy Blood of Hailes. He then starts in with what is going to be a favorite device of his – regaling whoever will listen with the latest anecdotes of monastery misbehavior. It had been nearly five minutes.Ĭromwell relates the sorry state he has found some religious houses in. Oh, Thank God I can finally give you a compliment, Your Majesty. Henry has promised to make up the shortfall. Henry finally notices him and explains that a daughter of Lord Morley is marrying George Boleyn, but Lord Morley can’t afford the dowry Thomas Boleyn has demanded. You’re WelcomeĪnd appears to have forgotten that he has summoned Cromwell. In Whitehall, Henry is hanging out next to his armillary sphere (No, not an astrolabe, the thing you will see behind Cromwell is the astrolabe). The Protestant reformation gathers apace, but is only close to a majority in London and the home counties (the counties that surround London) the rest of the country remaining pretty damn Catholic and getting increasingly riled. The passing of the last real resistance leader in England will create shock waves right the way from international politics down to inside Henry, himself. Thomas More’s death is really the end point for the first half of Season 2.
And as Pope Paul winds up his damning proclamation we get to see some bits from the titles. Then we get some new footage of agitators entering a church, disrupting mass and throwing down the religious statues. Then, as Pope Paul goes on to talk about ‘Those in England living under tyranny” we get what could well be some recycled footage from the sweating sickness episode, with a crowd jostling Beefeaters outside the main gate in Whitehall. The Pope would like to offer, to the faithful of England the hand of condolence, his tears of grief… In his most livid hat.Īnd a montage, which starts with a retrospective of Thomas More’s exit from court after being found guilty, with the crowd bubbling up and bumping the guards. The crowd is well CG’ed considering the age of The Tudors, movements and positions in the crowd are carefully mixed around, but apparently an orange hat seller somewhere in Rome had an implausibly great day. Their agent is pretty good.Īnd then we go straight to Rome where a huge crowd has been gathered so Pope Paul can give them a recap.
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Titles first – with Jeremy Northam’s Sir Thomas More departing the series the Crown in Autumnal Leaves and the Ghost of Reproductive Angst get semi permanent spots in the titles.