“The opening scene of the RSC’s Queen Anne is a good reminder that bitterly misogynistic commentary on female bodies has always found an appreciative audience. A bawdy drinking song lays out the popular vision of the endlessly pregnant royal princess – “Oh George, Oh George, I think I swell/But Annie, my pudding, how can you tell?” – to a room holding Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe and the Commons Speaker Robert Harley”