Anne Boleyn

Joyce Redman, actress twice nominated for Oscars, dies at 96

2012-05-14 09:45:00

Joyce Redman, a two-time Oscar-nominated Irish-born actress whose erotically charged dinner-eating scene opposite Albert Finney was a highlight of the bawdy 1963 British film comedy "Tom Jones," has died. She was 96. Redman died Thursday in Kent, England...

Surprised by a trilogy: Hilary Mantel on her Tudor saga

2012-05-18 16:36:58

Oscars by the Numbers

2012-02-02 16:41:14

Quick Takes: Film Independent's double play

2012-01-11 00:00:00

Audience gets a surprise at Met Opera's 'Anna Bolena'

2011-10-19 16:33:02

'Game of Thrones' adds Natalie Dormer to cast for second season

2011-06-23 16:36:41

Book Review: 'Katherine Parr: Complete Works and Correspondence'

2011-05-29 00:00:00

Katherine Parr Complete Works and Correspondence Edited by Janel Mueller University of Chicago Press: 648 pp., $65 One of the difficulties of studying Tudor and medieval women is the silence they have left. Medieval people did not write nearly as much...

Emmy-nominated costume designers on dressing characters with success

2010-08-13 15:59:08

From the full-skirted polka-dot dresses of "I Love Lucy's" Lucy Ricardo to the cone bras and figure-hugging outfits worn by the women of " Mad Men," costumes have done as much as anything to make television memorable. In recognition of the part clothes...

From the Vaults: 'Friday the 13th' (1980)

2010-08-20 04:32:59

Paperback Writers: Vintage early Mantel

2010-08-29 00:00:00

It may seem, thanks to her ManBooker Prize winning novel 'Wolf Hall' (just out in paperback, Picador: 608 pp., $16), that the novelist Hilary Mantel needs no more attention; but in fact the large body of her work — and she's been publishing for more...

Man Booker Prize shows the Tudors still got it

2009-10-06 16:33:29

Philippa Gregory on a Tudor smear campaign

2009-10-06 16:33:29

It was widely rumored that Anne Boleyn , the queen of England from 1533 to 1536 and the second wife of Henry VIII, had 11 fingers. However, when her body was exhumed in 1876, no such deformity was found.

2011-11-09 08:55:56

Marisa D'Imperio, left, who plays Anne Boleyn , is pictured during rehearsal of "A Night at The Wax Museum," a musical comedy produced by The Children's Theatre of Annapolis . The show will open on Friday and runs through April 17th.

2011-04-05 00:00:00

may be Irish, but he makes a delicious King Henry VIII in this scandal-laden series.

2009-01-03 16:12:53