Footnotes and Tangents

Footnotes and Tangents

Supremacy

Wolf Crawl Week 15: Monday 8 April – Sunday 14 April

Apr 10, 2024
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Welcome to week fifteen of Wolf Crawl

This week, we are reading “Supremacy 1534”. Oaths and vows and a play written and performed by Sir Thomas More.

You will find everything you need for this read-along on the main Cromwell trilogy page of my website, including:

  • The reading schedule

  • Weekly updates, like this one

  • Plot summaries for each character

  • Online resources about Mantel’s writing and Thomas Cromwell

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In this week’s post:

  1. This week’s story

  2. This week’s characters

  3. This week’s theme: Puppet masters

  4. Footnote: Where is our treasure?

  5. Tangent: The living and the dead

  6. And now no more for lack of time

  7. Quote of the week: A buried empire

  8. Next week

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