ABSTRACT
The fall of Anne Boleyn is well-trodden ground: it has been analysed, discussed, negotiated, disputed and contested almost ad infinitum.2 The purpose of this chapter is not primarily to rehash this debate, but to suggest that the events of the fall can be better understood if situated in the gender and honour culture of the period, and that in return, notions of gender and honour can be elucidated through the events of April-May 1536.
