Local medieval scholar Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn will discuss the historical and literary depictions of the six wives of Henry VIII: Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard, and Katherine Parr. We will learn a bit about Henry in the process, but the primary focus will be on the women themselves: where they came from, how the marriage came about, the results of the marriage, and how they have been portrayed in literary texts from contemporary poetry to Shakespeare to modern depictions such as the Showtime series The Tudors and the hit Broadway musical Six (2017).
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