glorianas: Anne hasn’t always been seen as the skanky schemer. For supporters of Katherine of Aragon
glorianas: Anne hasn’t always been seen as the skanky schemer. For supporters of Katherine of Aragon she was worse: a cold hearted murderess. For Catholic propagandists such as Nicholas Sander, she was a six fingered, jaundiced looking erotomaniac who slept with butlers, chaplains and half of the French Court. For Elizabethan admirers, she was the unsung heroine of the Protestant Reformation. For the Romantics, particularly in painting, she was the hapless victim of a king’s tyranny-a view that gets taken up in earliest film versions of Anne, Ernst Lubitsch’s silent Anna Boleyna and Alexander Korda’s The Private Life of Henry VIII. In post-war movies and on television, Anne has animated by the rebellious spirit of the sixties ( Anne of the Thousand Days), the “mean girl” and “power feminist” celebration of female aggression and competitiveness of the nineties ( The Other Boleyn Girl) and the third-wave feminism of a new generation of Anne worshipers, inspired by Natalie Dormer’s brainy seductress of The Tudors to see Anne a woman too smart, sexy and strong for her own time, unfairly vilified for her defiance of sixteenth century norms of wifely obedience and silence. Henry may have tried to write his second wife out of history but Anne Boleyn has been too strong for him, in the many guises she has assumed over the centuries.Susan Bordo-The Creation of Anne Boleyn -- source link