狼厅

对于这段历史，我知之甚少，唯一于两三年前，有涉猎 The Other Boleyn Girl(另一个波琳家的女孩) 英文原著。因为是原著，对于眼花缭乱的未知的形容词名词，我都懒于一一查证，只读了个大概。故，此篇小评，仅从我个人感受出发，略谈一二。

该6集迷你剧，以主人公Thomas Cromwell (托马斯·克伦威尔) 的视角， 呈现了 Henry VIII (英王亨利八世) 第一次废后风波。Cromwell 追随的原主公 Thomas Wolsey (托馬斯·沃尔西) —— 时任大法官，国王首席顾问，因未能如亨利八世所愿，与罗马教廷成功协商英王的离婚请愿，骤然失宠，同时被英王与仇家驱往苦寒之地。Wolsey 颓然失势，大厦将倾，身边仅留Cromwell 一忠臣不离不弃。为向英王求情以期主公重获帝心，Cromwell 前往宫廷，会见帝王， 而Wolsey则发往谪迁之地。

Cromwell 不愧为Wolsey 的得力谋臣，他极快地获得了帝王的喜爱，为主公谋得了些许补助。同时，Cromwell 也得到了自己敌人，英王的情妇以及欲结婚对象——Anne Boleyn (安‧波林) 的召见。Cromwell 获得了未来王后的喜爱，并领了新差。正当Cromwell 疲于两边周转时，噩耗袭来，英王以叛国罪逮捕 Wolsey, 欲押往伦敦塔，而 Wolsey 却在途中因病过世。

Cromwell 得知后大为悲痛，却将哀恸深埋于心，赴往英王的宴会。宴席上，权臣为了庆祝昔日权宦 Wolsey的坠亡，特排了话剧，将 Wolsey恶意丑化魔改。 Cromwell 掩于人群中，将所有饰演者的脸深深烙印心中。为抱旧主大仇，Cromwell 决心加入下议院，逐步攀登，接近帝王。Cromwell 如愿得到了帝君的喜爱，并委以重任。Cromwell 修立法案，使亨利成功废后并迎娶新后。

英王对新后十分宠爱，然好景不长。新后始终未能为英王诞下王子，随着母族干政，权倾朝野，英王逐渐失去了耐心。英王授意Cromwell 协助自己，废黜新后。Cromwell 展开调查，成功发现新后与多人通奸，其中甚至包括她的亲兄弟。Cromwell 将通奸者一一捕获，发现他们与深埋记忆中仇人的脸庞逐渐重合。最后，新后被问斩，Cromwell 得以赴命。

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第一集，初始的黑底白字，在古朴的琴声下，历史的肃穆感向我铺面袭来。在断断续续哀婉的琴声后，有一刹那的寂静，我纳罕着，期待着；随即，画面陡然转变，正片开始，主题曲 Wolf Hall 倏然奏响。

伊始

印象最深的，就是这部剧肃穆沉重的背景音乐，和忧郁暗沉的影片色调。鉴于对历史了解甚少，无法评说是否真实还原历史。但就个人观感，我愿意相信，这样的历史是真实的。我愿意相信，那个时代人们的衣着生活是那样的，那样的朴素乏陋，又因着几百年岁月的浸染，显的端庄神圣。我像一个窥探者，透着历史沙漏中的间隙，得以窥见，千百年前，一代权臣的蛰伏，破出，与展翅。我也如撒旦，透过人面人心与人行，得以知晓人内心深处的欲望与黑暗。

分享Debbie Wiseman的单曲《Wolf Hall》://y.music.163.com/m/song/31192013/?userid=304436804(来自@网易云音乐)

一、喜新厌旧的亨利八世

今年，在读有关克伦威尔的小说《狼厅》。

这本小说，拿过布克奖。

实话说，作者的闪回式碎片写作，加上略晦涩的翻译得略难懂。

冲着戴米恩的亨利八世去的。

戴米恩在《国土安全》、《亿万》里，演的都是大男主，精明强干，十分有人格魅力。

但是，这部剧里，戴米恩完全就是个工具人，沦落为里朗斯的陪衬。

港真，戴米恩，真的，不适合演风流倜傥的花花公子。

他是那种，哪天爆出来桃色新闻，你第一反应一定是：“啥？不可能！他对美色完全不感冒。”或者是“啥？还有能破他金身的人？我倒要看看，是哪个美女，这么牛。”

他身上有那种“终日只顾打熬气力，不以这女色为念”的豪雄调调。

所以，他演亨利八，特别没有说服力。

毕竟，亨利八世是个负心汉，他的宫闱秘闻养活的文人，不知凡几、若恒河沙数。

二、权斗高手亨利八世

这部剧，虽然以克伦威尔为主线，但我想写亨利八世。

一则，我最近在读另一本克伦威尔的传记，打算把对克伦威尔的看法放在那篇读书笔记里。

二则，亨利八世，这个人，实在值得大书特书。

先说结论：此君，真雄主也！

我一向对宫闱秘闻没啥兴趣，对亨利八、克伦威尔的私生活也不咋关注。

虽然，亨利八世声望不佳，但从功业上看，他是英帝国的奠基人，无疑了。

亨利八世，跟唐高宗李治的路数有点像。

不是长子，不是王位第一继承人。

看起来，也不是那么靠谱。

但，就是这么不靠谱的人，总能干出罔顾世俗人伦的大事件。

李治，力排众议，娶了自己爸爸的后妃。

亨利八世，力排众议，休妻、杀妻、停妻再娶，这种事情，干了不知道多少回。

亨利八世，面临的问题与李治类似，就是父亲给自己留下一个王朝的同时，也留下了一个勋贵集团。

王朝想要发展，就要削藩王、清勋贵。

王权与贵族群体之间有着不可调和的矛盾，这是主要矛盾，宫闱秘闻，那都是边边角角的花絮。

孰轻孰重，一望便知。

他要进一步巩固王权，就必须要起用克伦威尔这样的寒门士子，同时，拿婚姻问题大作文章，解除外患。第二任王后，安·博林及其家族，主要功能跟武则天及其家族的作用一模一样，就是用来抗衡贵族。

坏事让克伦威尔、安·博林家族做，自己坐享其成。

一旦这些工具人完成了历史使命，立刻换掉。

所以，在亨利八世一朝，他回收了教会的税源，对勋贵阶层进行了一轮又一轮的大清洗。

无非，就是确立了王权的集中地位，同时，让新生代、少壮派迅速崛起。

当然，大清洗必定带来人心动荡。

但亨利首开了先例，给英帝国的崛起奠定了钱脉、权脉的基础，打通了下层寒门上升通道。

这不是雄主，是什么？

很多年前看过都铎王朝，印象很深得是亨利八世为了一个男性继承人多么执着可笑，对于其他情节印象不深。此次看狼厅，觉得主角的表演自然中规中矩，但是印象最深的镜头却与主角无关：

一是托马斯.莫尔在自知必死无疑时的那段陈词，在那一刻，我深深体会到英国当时的宗教改革面临的巨大阻力，心中受到巨大的震动。精神信仰领域的改变是如此困难，且以如此惨烈的方式体现出来，让人心中恻然。

二是安妮.博林之死，我记得都铎王朝时我也见过安妮.博林被斩首，并无太大的感受，但是在狼厅中那一幕让我尤其不忍，几乎无法直视。鲜活的生命瞬间香消玉殒，心中感受难以言喻。

Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn pop out for a stroll in ‘Wolf Hall’ (Pic: BBC)

This Sunday (April 5), the recent BBC of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and Bring Out the Bodies comes to PBS, starring Mark Rylance and Demian Lewis. It's the story of Thomas Cromwell, a lawyer and former mercenary from a poor background who ended up becoming an advisor first to Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, and then to Henry VIII. And in doing so became one of the most powerful men in England.

It's particularly auspicious moment in British history, as Thomas becomes involved in Henry's attempts to legally dissolve his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, woo Anne Boleyn and sire a male heir. And in doing so, create a permanent rift between the English church's break and Rome, which is set against the background of protestant reforms, and leads directly to Henry's dissolution of the monasteries, claiming all the treasures found for this own coffers.

"Voila! The King of England will be a bachelor."

Wolf Hall is a fascinating fictionalized account of a man who historians have often decried as cold, scheming and vicious.

So before it all kicks off, here are ten useful snippets of information you may wish to get clear before immersing yourself in all the political shenanigans and dark, candlelit corridors:

1. Almost nothing of note happens in a place called Wolf Hall. Actually, Wolfhall (or Wulfhall) is the site of a manor house, home of the Seymour family in Burbage, Wiltshire. The family's daughter Jane would go on to become Henry's third wife.

2. Wolf Hall is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Ulfela, an Anglo-Saxon name, and it will have been a small village; a meeting point between several farmsteads. This later became Ulfhall and then Wulfhall. So the Seymour manor house was not named Wolf Hall, it was built in Wolfhall.

3. There is a Cromwell family tie to Wolfhall too, as Cromwell's son Gregory later married Elizabeth Seymour, sister of Jane and (like Jane) one of the servants in Anne Boleyn's household.

4. The original manor house at Wolfhall was a medieval timber-framed manor house with a long gallery, a 'Little Court', a 'Broad Chamber', a chapel, a kennel for hounds, and a tower (which was pulled down in 1569).

5. Henry stayed there in 1535, during his marriage to Anne Boleyn, which may have been when he first began to pitch woo at Jane Seymour.

6. He was not the first reigning monarch to use Wolfhall as a staging post. Edward I visited in 1302, on a journey across Wiltshire between Marlborough Castle to Ludgersall Castle.

7. Although Thomas Cromwell was instrumental in clearing the way for Henry to marry Anne Boleyn, it was his skill as a match-maker that later caused his fall from grace. Having arranged the marriage between Henry and his fourth wife, the German princess Anne of Cleves, Cromwell was surprised to discover Henry did not take to Anne at all, and in fact had the marriage annuled on the grounds that it had not been consummated. He was later arrested for treason.

8. The title of the book, and therefore the TV series, uses the name of the Seymour home as an atmospheric hint that we are in the realm of the Latin expression homo homini lupus, or "Man is wolf to man". In other words, this is a dog-eat-dog world, which Henry at the head of the pack.

9. By 1571, the manor house at Wolfhall lay derelict, as the family had moved to nearby Tottenham House, taking some of the materials to build their new home. It was used for servants quarters for a while, and finally demolished in 1723. Some elements did survive into the early 20th century, including a barn which was said to have played host both to a wedding feast for Henry and Jane, and a subsequent feast just for Henry when he revisited after Jane died. But that burned down in the 1920s.

10. There was a Victorian railway junction with the name of Wolf Hall, but that's gone now. However, there is still a dairy farm that uses the name

转载自10 Little-Known Facts About the Real Wolf Hall

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Episode 4. "The Devil's Spit"

Episode 5. "Crows"

Episode 6. "Master of Phantoms"

根据两届布克奖得主，希拉里·曼特尔(Hilary Mantel)的热销历史小说《狼厅》Wolf Hall和《提堂》Bring Up the Bodies改编，讲述了亨利八世统治下的都铎王朝宫廷权力斗争的故事。根据两届布克奖得主，希拉里·曼特尔(Hilary Mantel)的热销历史小说《狼厅》Wolf Hall和《提堂》Bring Up the Bodies改编，讲述了亨利八世统治下的都铎王朝宫廷权力斗争的故事。