Masculinity and Marian Efficacy in Shakespeare's England

Ruben Espinosa (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-26811-1 (ISBN)

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Masculinity and Marian Efficacy in Shakespeare's England offers a new approach to evaluating the psychological 'loss' of the Virgin Mary in post-Reformation England by illustrating how, in the wake of Mary's demotion, re-inscriptions of her roles and meanings only proliferated, seizing hold of national imagination and resulting in new configurations of masculinity. The author surveys the early modern cultural and literary response to Mary's marginalization, and argues that Shakespeare employs both Roman Catholic and post-Reformation views of Marian strength not only to scrutinize cultural perceptions of masculinity, but also to offer his audience new avenues of exploring both religious and gendered subjectivity. By deploying Mary's symbolic valence to infuse certain characters, and dramatic situations with feminine potency, Espinosa analyzes how Shakespeare draws attention to the Virgin Mary as an alternative to an otherwise unilaterally masculine outlook on salvation and gendered identity formation.

Ruben Espinosa is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso, USA.

Introduction; Chapter 1 “England, Mary’s Dowry”; Chapter 2 Marian Intercession and Intercessory Promiscuity in The Merchant of Venice and Measure for Measure; Chapter 3 Virgins, Mothers, and the Virgin Mother in Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear; Chapter 4 Marian Miracles and the Theatrical Wonder of Antony and Cleopatra, Pericles, and The Winter’s Tale; Chapter 101 Afterword;

Erscheinungsdatum	07.01.2017
Reihe/Serie	Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-138-26811-9 / 1138268119
ISBN-13	978-1-138-26811-1 / 9781138268111
Zustand	Neuware