Abstract:

There are tropes common to narratives about Anne Boleyn, many of which focus on execution. G. W. Bernard, Suzannah Dunn, Eric Ives, Philippa Gregory, Hilary Mantel, and Alison Weir have each written narratives of Boleyn’s life and, whether fiction or nonfiction, these texts all demonstrate similarities in their approach to execution. A Tudorist reading reveals how the exhaustive discussion of beheading speaks to a macabre indulgence in the detail of execution, whilst archetypes and characterization—rather than evidence per se—shape these twenty-first-century narratives. The brutality of this past is romanticized and common motifs have significant sway over representations of cruelty and culpability.

摘要：

关于安妮·伯林（Anne Boleyn）的叙事有很多共性，其中很多都集中在执行力上。GW Bernard，Suzannah Dunn，Eric Ives，Philippa Gregory，Hilary Mantel和Alison Weir都对Boleyn的生活进行了书面叙述，无论是小说还是非小说，这些文本在处死方式上都具有相似之处。通多主义者的读物揭示了关于斩首的详尽讨论是如何表现出对执行细节的放纵，而原型和特征而不是证据本身塑造了这些二十世纪的叙述。过去的残酷被浪漫化了，常见的图案在残忍和罪恶的表现上有明显的影响。