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When I interviewed Hilary Mantel in 2011 while she was still writing Bring Up the Bodies, she described her characters as belonging to “a chain of literary representation.” Her Cromwell, she told me, “shakes hands” with previous depictions, as does her Thomas More, a bold departure from earlier depictions such as the sanctified icon of conscience in Robert Bolt’s A Man for All Seasons:
Portions of this piece are taken from Susan Bordo’s The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Look at England’s Most Notorious Queen (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013).
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Bordo, S. (2016). The Tudors, Natalie Dormer, and Our “Default” Anne Boleyn. 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_4
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