Marian moments in early modern British drama / edited by Regina Buccola, Lisa Hopkins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Buccola, Regina, 1969-

Hopkins, Lisa, 1962-

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Studies in performance and early modern drama

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint.

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.

English drama.

English drama--17th century--History and criticism.

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--In literature.

Mary.

Christianity and literature--England--16th century.

Christianity and literature.

Christianity and literature--England--17th century.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Criticism and interpretation.

England.

Physical Description:

xx, 177 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., [2007]

Contents:

'Here in this garden' : the iconography of the Virgin Queen in Shakespeare's Richard II / Helen Ostovich

'One that's dead is quick' : virgin re-birth in All's well that ends well / Alison Findlay

inverting the Pietà in Shakespeare's King Lear / Katharine Goodland

'Black but beautiful' : Othello and the cult of the Black Madonna / Lisa Hopkins

Desdemona and the Mariological theology of the will in Othello / Greg Maillet

The wonder of women : virginity, sexuality and religio-politics in Marston's The tragedy of Sophonisba / Thomas Rist

Easter scenes from an unholy tomb : Christian parody in The widow's tears / Alice Dailey

Virgin fairies and imperial whores : the unstable ground of religious iconography in Thomas Dekker's The whore of Babylon / Regina Buccola

Not kissing the (He)rod : Marian moments in The tragedy of Mariam / Stephanie Hodgson-Wright.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780754656371

0754656373

OCLC:

72698679