FAQ/ primers
Was Mary Boleyn’s son disabled? (+ sources on Margaret Butler)
Did Mary I question Elizabeth’s paternity?
Was Anne Boleyn an ‘evil stepmother’?
What was the nature of Anne Boleyn’s relationship with the Duke of Norfolk? (supplemental)
What was the background of the Exeter conspiracy? (supplemental) (supplemental pt 2)
What can be understood about the relationship between Jane Seymour and Princess Mary?
Did Anne of Cleves support Wyatt’s Rebellion?
Was Anne Boleyn’s motto inspired by Margaret of Austria’s?
Is it true that Henry VIII wanted to divorce Catherine of Aragon even earlier than 1527?
What was the dynamic between Henry Percy and Anne Boleyn during their courtship, after their courtship, and when she was Queen?
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betteridge, thomas
cressy, david
kesselring, kj
lipscomb, suzannah
macculloch, diarmaid
mackay, lauren
paranque, estelle
richardson, glenn
skidmore, chris
warnicke, retha
authors:
dalton, heather
gregory, philippa
rounding, virginia
weir, alison
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It's time to determine by popular vote...
- Laurence Olivier, Richard III (1955)
- Aneurin Barnard, The White Queen (2013)
- Benedict Cumberbatch, The Hollow Crown (2012-2016)
This pearl necklace was seen three times in 2011.
It first appeared on Joely Richardson as a young Queen Elizabeth I in 𝑨𝒏𝒐𝒏𝒚𝒎𝒐𝒖𝒔.
It was then seen twice in the first season of 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒊𝒂𝒔 – first in the episode entitled 𝑳𝒖𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒛𝒊𝒂’𝒔 𝑾𝒆𝒅𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈, where it was worn by an extra – and then again in the episode 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑭𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒉 𝑲𝒊𝒏𝒈, where it was worn by Lotte Verbeek as Giulia Farnese.
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genuinely be careful what you wish for re: bad/mediocre acting in period dramas because sometimes an actor is …too good.
tudor fandom fanvidders usually all follow the same template (same as the fictional template / tropes) but occasionally they subvert expectations and make one hmmm 🧐
ok, so, i was reading this sort of snark-review of the above movie (which i'm not going to search for because it just overall had little merit, not worth a reread) which cited a specific critique of this above scene ('the matter of religion'), that if elizabeth was told that 'religion' killed her mother her primary response would be confusion, her mother was killed on accusations of adultery, incest, and treason, etc. and also that no one would say this because this obviously was not true.
while technically correct-- obviously the charges leveled against anne were not ones of heresy (although the prevalence of the theory witchcraft was in the suggestion if not literal text of the indictment by 1998 could be the explanation here)-- i would actually defend this creative choice, as a historically sound perception, ie, actually, a sophisticated creative choice in the context of the historical sources available.
protestant martyrologists such as john foxe did rewrite anne into the pantheon of protestant martyrdom, as a symbol if not literal martyr, much like catholic hagiography adopted catherine of aragon as catholic martyr for having suffered for upholding papal primacy, even if not literally dying for this belief as more, fisher, the carthusians, etc. catholic polemicists would not view her as a 'martyr', obviously, but they did view her as a heretic who deserved to die for her heresy among 'other crimes', even if this was not in the official indictment. so, actually... yes, it would be plausible that a marian councilor might threaten elizabeth with the salient reminder that religion 'killed her mother'.
moreover, this movie exists in a post-ives world...it was ives who made mainstream the theory that anne's stance on the dissolution was the catalyst to her downfall, based on strong primary source analysis and timeline recreation of events. after this, we saw a watershed in tudor fiction as it came to portrayals of her... it forced some movement in that binary mold which had existed for so long, anne as either femme fatale or tragic romantic heroine/victim (maybe she was neither of these things, maybe she was, actually, entirely more). in this way, it can be argued, she did 'die for religion'; and even if you disagree, there's still an emotional truth and resonance to this scene (in that this was what certain people believed, whether they cast anne as the heroine or villain of the tale...anne as the victim of a religious conspiracy by 'papists', alexander ales only one among them, anne as the 'wellspring' of 'heresy' in england), even if not a literal paint by numbers 'historical accuracy'.
tl; dr in the words of the immortal florence welch: who's a 'heretic' now?
tudor fandom fanvidders usually all follow the same template (same as the fictional template / tropes) but occasionally they subvert expectations and make one hmmm 🧐
