Introduction, fracturing Mary: the rise and decline of the cult of the Virgin Mary in England -- "England, Mary's dowry": Joan la Pucelle and the impotent fellowships and imagined communities of 1 Henry VI -- Marian intercession and intercessory promiscuity in the Merchant of Venice and Measure for measure -- Virgins, mothers, and the Virgin Mother in Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear -- Marian miracles and the theatrical wonder of Antony and Cleopatra, Pericles, and the Winter's tale -- Afterword.
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