“The Hunchback of Lord Cromwell” fits perfectly into the line of “monastic mysteries”: against the backdrop of the bloody years of the Reformation (16th century), the tragedy of individual destinies unfolds. The main character, Cromwell’s servant, is sent by him to a monastery where the lord’s previous emissary was brutally murdered. To the unfinished task of the deceased (to force the abbot to dissolve the monastery voluntarily) is added the search for the killer.