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It's all down to interpretation; did Rich entreat More for a place at court? Well, that's supposition. 'Know' and 'have a deep association with' are two completely different things. Bolt's play has far greater resonance if he's betrayed by someone that he actually liked and knew well, rather...

Bolt's More is saintly and pious practically beyond belief, but he has to be for dramatic purposes. But disregarding interpretation of fact (and More's writings on Luther, for instance, were less than saintly), for instance, Bolt invents a backstory in which Rich had a lengthy association with...

Bolt's interpretation of history, though it does, like all dramatic narrative, play fast and loose with historical fact, is drama of the very highest order, with clear allegorical links to matters of identity and conscience that were causing concerns on both sites of the Pond at the time...

I was there last week! :)

I think Wolf Hall leans more towards ambiguity in regard to Rich - Wolf Hall sits firmly on the fence in that regard. As for the truth, well, history is written by the winners; Mantel simply reinterprets that history and by doing so tweaks the noses of a whole coachload of affronted historians...