This book explores 500 years of poetry, drama, novels, television and films about Anne Boleyn. Hundreds of writers across the centuries have been drawn to reimagine the story of her rise and fall.
The Afterlife of Anne Boleyn tells the story of centuries of these shifting and often contradictory ways of understanding the narrative of Henry VIII’s most infamous queen. Since her execution on 19 May 1536, Anne’s life and body has been a site upon which competing religious, politica...
Зміст
I1. The It Girl of Tudor England.- 2. Anne Boleyn in the Sixteenth Century.- 3. Anne Boleyn in the Seventeenth Century.- 4. Anne Boleyn in the Long Eighteenth Century.- 5. A...
Про автора
Stephanie Russo is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Macquarie University, Australia. She has published widely on women’s writing of the early modern period...