The Cornish Ordinalia: A Critical Study
Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1980. Hardcover. 8vo. Very Good / Very Good. Item #002971
vii, 191 p.p. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. B&W frontis + illustrations throughout. Bumping to corners and spine ends, some damp staining to top and fore edge of text block. Light age toning to edges of pages but text is clean. Light glue marks to p.p. 23 & 26. Dust jacket has offset panels to covers and flaps. The fourteenth-century Cornish Ordinalia is not quite an undiscovered masterpiece; it has long been known to linguists and had a recent stage revival, but until this study literary critics have virtually ignored it. The Ordinalia richly repays serious literary consideration.The unknown playwright of the Cornish Rounds has created a trilogy as fine as any Corpus Christi cycle, a work intensely medieval and local but also timeless and universal.
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