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.
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