by Susan Bordo
37. The Tudors Wiki 2008.
38. Ibid., 2009.
39. Ibid.
40. Ilana Redler, interview with author and Natalie Sweet, e-mail, Lexington, KY, April 2011.
41. The Tudors Wiki 2008.
42. Ibid.
43. Ibid.
44. Marlessa Stivala, interview with author and Natalie Sweet, e-mail, Lexington, KY, April 2011.
45. Michelle Kistler, interview with author and Natalie Sweet, e-mail, Lexington, KY, April 2011.
46. Makenzie Case, interview with author and Natalie Sweet, e-mail, Lexington, KY, April 2011.
47. Ilana Redler, interview with author and Natalie Sweet, e-mail, Lexington, KY, April 2011.
48. Howard Brenton, interview with author, London, England, July 30, 2010.
49. Ibid.
50. Brenton 2010, 11.
51. Howard Brenton, interview with author, London, England, July 30, 2010.
52. Brenton 2010, 113.
53. Ibid.
54. Howard Brenton, interview with author, London, England, July 30, 2010.
55. Ibid.
56. Brenton 2010, 35.
57. Ibid., 115.
58. Hilary Mantel, interview with author, e-mail, Lexington, KY, October 5, 2011.
Afterword: Anne, Susan, and Cassie
1. In France, fashionable women wore a different kind of hood than the British: rounded and set farther back on the head so a woman’s hair, parted down the middle and drawn to the sides, was visible. Anne is credited with having brought the style to England, which was far more of a transformation than it first appears, as over the years the hood itself became smaller and smaller, as well as placed farther back on the head, so that by Elizabeth’s time, the nunlike gabled hood had given way to highly decorative headbands that called attention to a woman’s hair as her “glory” rather than a vanity to be imprisoned and effaced.
2. Howard Brenton, interview with author, London, England, July 30, 2010.
3. I enjoyed these little enactments, which frequently made knowing “winks” to more sobering events and to the religious politics always at play in the Tudor court. The day I visited, the marriage of Henry and Katherine Parr was being celebrated. Katherine’s aunt, preparing her for the wedding, enthused over the fact that Henry was marrying “a good, decent woman . . . unlike some of her predecessors . . . and best of all, a Protestant!” Katherine herself made continual references to the things she daren’t talk about in Henry’s previous marriages. (“But we won’t linger on that on this joyous day.”) If you knew your Tudor history, the presentation was loaded with unspoken subtext about the dangers of a marriage to Henry. (Even “kind and loving” Katherine was almost taken to the Tower for her subversive Protestantism. Unlike Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard, she was able to see Henry and talk him out of it.) The enactment’s oblique references, unfortunately, only carried irony if you came to Hampton Court with some knowledge of history. Judging from their whispered questions to one another, few visitors had. And beyond learning how 600 people were fed twice a day in an average year (8,200 sheep, 2,300 deer, 1,870 pigs, 1,240 oxen, 760 calves, and 53 wild boar), they wouldn’t get it from Hampton Court.
4. From the singular grammar (“The” Tower of London) and old Boris Karloff movies, U.S. visitors probably expect one dark, creepy building full of dungeons and torture chambers. In fact, the Tower of London is a complex of towers, built up over the centuries, that have served a variety of individual purposes, from medieval fortresses and places of royal refuge from outside attack, to strongholds for official papers and valuables, to royal residences and sites of important state ceremonies such as coronations (and trials), to prisons for high-status offenders such as Thomas More, Anne, Sir Walter Raleigh, and, for a time, Elizabeth I.
5. Rennell 2010.
6. Brenton 2010, 115.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
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