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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 16th century. The series is adapted by Stephen Butchard and directed by Justin Chadwick and produced by The Forge.
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.
The author's death occurred less than a week before the television series based on Dissolution was to start streaming on the Disney+ network. [9] Sansom explained his reasons for making his protagonist an attorney, in an interview with The Guardian. I thought it made sense for Shardlake to be a lawyer for a number of reasons.
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 ...
Shardlake is a clever lawyer who solves puzzles and problems during the reign of King Henry VIII. He is also disabled. ... “We don’t see a lot of leading disabled characters,” says Arthur ...
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 ...
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.