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Cardinal Wolsey’s Three Ages of Man

2025-02-24T01:31:12-06:00

Ever since the early 1960s and Robert Bolt’s play and film, A Man for All Seasons, Thomas Cardinal Wolsey (c. 1473-1530) has entered the popular imagination as a menacing villain. Whether portrayed by Orson Welles in 1966 or by John Gielgud in 1988, Bolt’s version of Wolsey was of an elderly and devious man trying to [...]

Cardinal Wolsey’s Three Ages of Man2025-02-24T01:31:12-06:00
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