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fideidefenswhore · 7 months

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Catherine [of Aragon], [Princess] Mary, and Anne Boleyn are enemies of Cromwell and do not fare well at her hands. In fact, [Mantel's] focus on Cromwell seriously undermines the claim her account is more authentic than Michael Hirst['s].

Writing Mary I: History, Historiography, and Fiction

#hmm...#i mean #i don't think focus on one singular historical person as narrator (well . sort of. it's third person POV) automatically renders a work #'less authentic'#by this logic the only 'authentic' series is an ensemble #POV which i suppose the tudors is closer to but that's a very strict and limited criteria...#tbh this is just me pettily posting this quote bcus im so vindicated when this is said #in scholarly compliations lmfao #i agree with the conclusion but not the argument towards it if that makes sense. i have my own sort of...#(i think it's incidental that this is the case. you can still strive for authenticity in a first person close POV historical novel #it just doesn't occur often. see: tobg)#i've seen this as a criticism of BSR and it doesn't track #bcus the fleabag-style makes it explicitly clear this is all from AB's pov #'it's iNACCURATE that it says henry never loved coa FUCK this show'#'accuracy' re: feelings is a difficult premise in the 1st place but also #you cannot argue it's 'inaccurate' that ANNE thought that. bcus we don't know what she thought #the structure of the series is inherently her being interviewed and so it's clear this is the writers' guess on how she #justified her path to herself #and i actually found it to be a plausible one. again. accuracy or inaccuracy cannot be argued. you're talking about someone's feelings #/beliefs about someone ELSE's feelings (hers about henry's)#it's actually quite credible. considering we know that she did claim *she* loved henry more than catherine #that speaks to her feelings on #the matter ...which melds well to their interpretation on what else she might have felt on the subject.

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