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In a troubling scene from The Tudors: King Takes Queen (2008), a novel of Season Two of Showtime’s The Tudors written by the series’ creator and writer, Michael Hirst, and Elizabeth Massie, Sir Thomas Wyatt, poet and courtier, seeks to seduce a devoutly Catholic lady-in-waiting to Catherine of Aragon, Lady Elizabeth Derrell. As Lady Elizabeth attempts to refuse Wyatt’s advances, insisting that she has done nothing to provoke his desire, he begins, nevertheless, both to tell her that she has indeed provoked it and physically to act on her provocation:
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Hickerson, M.L. (2016). Putting Women in Their Place: Gender, Sex, and Rape in The Tudors . In: Robison, W. (eds) History, Fiction, and The Tudors. Queenship and Power. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-43883-6_20
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