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Part biography, part ethnical history, The Creation of Anne Boleyn is a remarkable reconstruction of Anne's life and an illuminating check out her afterlife in the popular imagination. How come Anne so convincing? Why has she influenced such extreme reactions? What did she really appear to be? Was she the flaxen-haired martyr of Affectionate paintings or the raven-haired seductress of twenty-first-century portrayals? (Answer: Neither.) And perhaps the most provocative questions concern Anne's death more than her life. How could Henry order the execution of your once beloved wife? Drawing on scholarship and critical analysis, Bordo probes the complexities of 1 of history's most infamous connections.Bordo also shows how generations of polemicists, biographers, novelists, and filmmakers imagined and re-imagined Anne: Whore, martyr, cautionary story, proto "mean young lady," feminist icon, and everything in between. In this lively audiobook, Bordo steps off the well-trodden paths of Tudoriana to expertly tease out the individual behind the rivalling mythologies.
