Bill Leedham

Culpeper's Boye Bill Leedham

England 1538: the tiltyard in the palace of Whitehall. A boy is about to be hanged for theft when, at the last minute, the King's pardon arrives. This is the starting point for a story which takes us into the dangerous see-saw world of Tudor court politics where love can bring a man or a woman to the scaffold Based upon the contemporary chronicle of Charles Wriothesley, 'Culpeper's Boye' does not shrink from the cruelties of the age yet reflects the fact that in the most dangerous of situations there can still be humour...