Masculinity and Marian Efficacy in Shakespeare's England

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 earl...