Season 1 Episode 10: Annunciation and Virginity

Written By Jeanne Petrolle

Edward Muir’s “The Annunciation” draws on a story from the Gospel of Luke in which an angel visits the young woman Mary. This episode explores ideas of purity, conception and motherhood.

Works Cited and Consulted:

Meltem Aktas, Courage to Be, https://www.flickr.com/photos/jennisimmons/1381844495

Tony Kushner, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, 1991.

Edward Muir, “The Annunciation,” https://www.journeywithjesus.net/poemsandprayers/3637-Edwin_Muir_The_Annunciation

Wim Wenders, Wings of Desire, 1987.

Jeanne Petrolle
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