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Anne Boleyn: Life and Afterlives

Not Just the Tudors

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Henry the Eighth - The Rape Scene in Two Thousand and Three

There's lots of penalties here for this woman having this success, and then the satisfaction, of course, of her being cut down. And that feels to me like it comes out as a theme again, again. I think your sporancesof it, all these representations are saying is that we haven't quite figured out how to represent women in power. Clare, i think it's very human. Here in australia, we talk about the tall poppy centurm all the time. We see an ment of discomfort with this woman who seems to be moving beyond her station,. That is manifested in this kind of almost glee that she doesn't retain her power. There's that sense

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