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Shardlake is a four-part television series on Disney+ based on the Shardlake series of historical mystery novels by C. J. Sansom set in the reign of Henry VIII in the ...
The series' protagonist is the hunchbacked lawyer Matthew Shardlake, who is assisted in his adventures by Mark Poer and then Jack Barak.. Shardlake works on commission, initially from Thomas Cromwell in Dissolution [2] and Dark Fire, [3] then archbishop Thomas Cranmer in Sovereign and Revelation, [4] queen Catherine Parr in Heartstone and Lamentation, and lately princess Elizabeth in Tombland.
Shardlake has the sort of brooding, masculine presence that is something of a trope in modern detective series (Broadchurch, True Detective, Luther etc), but more interesting in this setting ...
“We don’t see a lot of leading disabled characters,” says Arthur Hughes, who plays the title character. Shardlake is a clever lawyer who solves puzzles and problems during the reign of King ...
Disney+ is set to take viewers on a journey through Tudor England with its latest series, “Shardlake.” Based on the internationally acclaimed Tudor murder mystery novels by C.J. Sansom, the ...
Dissolution has been well received by critics, although there has been some criticism of the language and detail in the writing. [2] " The best crime novel I have read this year" – Colin Dexter; [3] "Remarkable...the sights, the voices, the very smell of this turbulent age seem to rise from the page" – P. D. James; [4] "This is a humdinger of a whodunnit.
Sovereign, published in 2006, is a historical mystery novel by British author C. J. Sansom.It is Sansom's fourth novel and the third in the Matthew Shardlake Series.Set in the 16th century during the reign of King Henry VIII, it follows hunchbacked lawyer Matthew Shardlake and his assistant, Jack Barak, as they investigate a series of murders and a plot to question the legitimacy of the line ...
Based on the first of C.J. Sansom's Tudor-era murder mystery novels, "Shardlake," premiering Wednesday on Hulu, follows a lawyer turned reluctant detective.