Author: David StarkPublisher:
ISBN: 9781903668184
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
Cornish Bards of the Diaspora
Author: David StarkPublisher:
ISBN: 9781903668184
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
Kerenza
Author: Rosanne HawkePublisher: Omnibus Books
ISBN: 9781742990606
Category : Children of immigrants
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Kerenza isn't sure about leaving her village in Cornwall and taking a ship to Australia, but she can be brave for her dad's sake. Where he sees a farm, she and her Mam see endless bush and flies - millions of them - and hard work from dawn to dusk. It's almost too much to bear, but the Mallee has its own beauty, and family and new-found friends might just make it her home.
Bewnans Ke / the Life of St Kea
Author: Graham ThomasPublisher:
ISBN: 9780859892940
Category : Arthurian romances
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In 2000, a sixteenth-century manuscript containing a copy of a previously unknown play in Middle Cornish, probably composed in the second half of the fifteenth century, was discovered among papers bequeathed to the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. This eagerly awaited edition of the play, published in association with the National Library of Wales, offers a conservatively edited text with a facing-page translation, and a reproduction of the original text at the foot of the page - vital for comparative purposes. Also included are a complete vocabulary, detailed linguistic notes, and a thorough introduction dealing with the language of the play, the hagiographic background of the St Kea material and the origins of other parts in the work of Geoffrey of Monmouth. The theme of the play is the contention between St Kea, patron of Kea parish in Cornwall, and Teudar, a local tyrant. This is combined with a long section dealing with the dispute over tribute payments between King Arthur and the Emperor Lucius Hiberius; Queen Guinevere's adultery with Arthur's nephew Modred; the latter's invitation to Cheldric and his Saxon hordes to come to Britain to assist him in his conflict with his uncle; and Arthur's battle with Modred. Winner of the 2008 Holyer An Gof Award for Cornish language publications.
Cornwall's First Golden Age
Author: Bernard DeaconPublisher:
ISBN: 9780993534447
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Cornish Bards of the St Ives Area
Author: Gorsedh Kernow Archives & Publications CommitteePublisher:
ISBN: 9781903668061
Category : Bards and bardism
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Cornish Bards from the North Cornwall Area
Author: Ann Trevenen JenkinPublisher:
ISBN: 9781903668085
Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Theatre in the Round
Author: Sydney HigginsPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781484947050
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The important and rich collection of medieval plays from Cornwall has, in the past, been all but ignored by the majority of drama historians and critics. In this book, Sydney Higgins shows why this is a mistaken and ill-informed view. The oldest of the three surviving manuscripts is the Cornish Cycle - performed on three consecutive days - that is probably the earliest surviving British drama script. Next is 'Buenans Meriasek' ('The Life of St. Meriasek') that is the only full-length medieval saint's play to have survived in the literature of Great Britain. The last of the three, 'The Creation of the World' is the first day of another Biblical play. In the manuscript of the Cornish Cycle, there is a plan of the theatre for each of the three days and there are two similar ones in 'St. Meriasek'. Apart from these five, the only other other plan of a British medieval theatre that has survived is of 'The Castle of Perseverance'. Like those for the Cornish plays, it is circular. Among the many important conclusions in the detailed and meticulously researched examination of the staging of the Cornish plays is that the medieval circular theatres are far more likely to have been the inspiration for the circular theatres of Shakespeare's age than the highly unlikely notion that their origin arose from a pageant waggon being parked in a rectangular inn yard. * * * Winner of the 2014 HOLYER AN GOF PUBLISHERS' AWARD for Non-Fiction - History, Language and Creative Arts. * * * This reviewer found of particular interest Sydney Higgins's lucid reconstruction of the playing in the round. 'Theatre Research International'. vol. 26, no. 1, p.117 Insightful scrutiny of staging ... a full and detailed analysis. 'European Medieval Drama - 2', Brepols, p.200.
Cornish Bards from the Penryn-Falmouth Area
Author: Gorseth KernowPublisher:
ISBN: 9781903668092
Category : Cornish Bards
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
The Bastard of Istanbul
Author: Elif ShafakPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440635846
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
A “vivid and entertaining” (Chicago Tribune) tale about the tangled history of two families, from the author of The Island of Missing Trees (a Reese's Book Club Pick) "Zesty, imaginative . . . a Turkish version of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club." —USA Today As an Armenian American living in San Francisco, Armanoush feels like part of her identity is missing and that she must make a journey back to the past, to Turkey, in order to start living her life. Asya is a nineteen-year-old woman living in an extended all-female household in Istanbul who loves Jonny Cash and the French existentialists. The Bastard of Istanbul tells the story of their two families--and a secret connection linking them to a violent event in the history of their homeland. Filed with humor and understanding, this exuberant, dramatic novel is about memory and forgetting, about the need to examine the past and the desire to erase it, and about Turkey itself.
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