Representations of pregnancy in the late medieval and early modern period are the subject of my second research project. Specifically, I am interested in how dramatic performances in cycle plays and early Elizabethan drama give a different picture of the mind-womb connection than we see in male-authored medical treatises that warn of such maladies as the "wandering womb" and are ever-more preoccupied with the pregnant mother's negative influence on the fetus growing within her. This study begins in Marian lyrics from the fourteenth century and will examine poetic representations of female bodies alongside male and female authored medical texts and other archival records of women's experience of pregnancy. A 2017 essay in a special issue of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies takes up the methodological task of bringing together historical and literary modes of analysis, and this essay is the foundation of this second research project that will examine representations of pregnancy in a range of premodern genres. (See Publications).