I don't know if any of you have seen this yet, but this crazy source talks about how promiscuous the N-Town Mary is...
Apparently she undergoes various tests of virginity while on stage, and is called a variety of ME insults. After outlining all the ways that Mary is slandered on stage, Solberg goes on to discuss the age old question of a virgin mother and the hermeneutical challenge that Mary presents to viewers. There's an interesting part about how Mary could have gotten pregnant, by medieval terms, which goes along well with Dana's crazy source on how medieval "scientists" understood conception. This essay does so much - it also talks about the story of Mary as a fabliaux or romance. It's a source to be considered for N-Town and for BVM papers. It was published just last year!
Solberg, Emma Maggie. "Madonna, Whore: Mary's Sexuality in the N-Town Plays."Comparative Drama 48.3 (2014): 191-220. EBSCOhost.
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