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Article: Anna of Denmark, Queen of England: A Cultural Biography.(Book Review)
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- The Historian
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- June 22, 2003
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Anna of Denmark, Queen of England: A Cultural Biography. By Leeds Barroll. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. Pp. 226. $35.00.)
This readable study is a welcome addition to scholarship on the Jacobean era, early modern courts, and women's history. Leeds Barroll argues against the traditional view of Anna as a superficial lover of pleasure and spectacle. Instead, he situates her within a "polymorphic body politic" that allowed a willful, intelligent royal woman chances at political intrigue, patronage, and alliance-building (3). In fact, Barroll insists, Anna invented her own court milieu, orchestrated her cultural representations, and greatly ...