Ordinalia – The Cornish Mystery Play Cycle
Translation by Alan M Kent
Francis Boutle Publishers
ISBN 1 903427 27 4
Paperback 292 pages
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The book
Alan M. Kent is one of the leading Anglo-Cornish poets writing today and has accomplished a remarkable feat in translating the medieval Cornish-language cycle of mystery plays – The Beginning of the World, The Passion and The Resurrection – in their entirety into English. Whilst maintaining the richness and zest of the original Celtic imagining, Kent brings a strong contemporary feel to the work, making one of the high points of European literature accessible for the first time to actors and audiences as well as the general reader.
The editor
Alan M Kent was born in St Austell and grew up in the china clay mining region of mid-Cornwall. He is a poet, novelist and dramatist. In 1998 he was awarded a doctorate for his research into Cornish, Cornu-English and Anglo-Cornish literature.
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Winner of the Holyer An Gof award for the outstanding literary publication of 2005
Awarded by the Gorseth Kernow.
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