Masculinity and Marian efficacy in Shakespeare's England
By: by Ruben Espinosa
Series: Women and gender in the early modern world
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9781409401162; 9781409401179
Subjects: Religion; Religion in literature; Criticism and interpretation; In literature; Religion and literature; History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction, fracturing Mary: the rise and decline of the cult of the Virgin Mary in England; title: "England, Mary's dowry": Joan la Pucelle and the impotent fellowships and imagined communities of 1 Henry VI; title: Marian intercession and intercessory promiscuity in the Merchant of Venice and Measure for measure; title: Virgins, mothers, and the Virgin Mother in Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear; title: Marian miracles and the theatrical wonder of Antony and Cleopatra, Pericles, and the Winter's tale; title: Afterword.