The Virgin Mary in late medieval and early modern English literature and popular culture / Gary Waller, Purchase College, State University of New York.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1538 and after : the Virgin Mary in the century of iconoclasm -- The Virgin Mary in late medieval culture to 1538. The sexualization of the Virgin in the late Middle Ages ; The Virgin's body in late medieval poetry, romance, and drama ; Walsingham or Falsingham, Woolpit or Foulpit : Marian shrines and pilgrimage before 1538 -- Fades, traces : transformations of the Virgin in early modern England. Fades : Elizabethan ruins, tunes, ballads, poems ; Traces : English Petrarchism and the veneration of the Virgin ; Traces : Shakespeare and the Virgin : All's well that ends well, Pericles, and The winter's tale ; Multiple Madonnas : traces and transformations in the seventeenth century.