Landgartha : a tragie-comedy /
By: Henry Burnell.
Contributor(s): Carpenter, Andrew [series editor.] | Rankin, Deana [editor.].
Series: Publisher: Dublin : Four Courts Press, 2013Description: 164 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1846823390 (cloth); 9781846823398:; 9781846823398 (cloth).Subject(s): H. B. (Henry Burnell), active 1641 -- Criticism and interpretation | English drama -- Irish authors -- 17th centuryDDC classification: 822.4Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 822.4 BUR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0091964 |
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface / Ian Campbell Ross -- Acknowledgements / Deana Rankin -- Introduction by Deana Rankin / Deana Rankin -- A note on the text / [Deana Rankin] -- Landgartha. The persons of the play. The epistle dedicatorie. [Prefatory verses]. Prologue. Landgartha : the first act. The second act. The third act. The fifth act. Epilogue. [Author's note] /rHenry Burnell -- List of emendations / [Deana Rankin] -- Appendix : brief notes on 'The persons of the play' / [Deana Rankin].
A robust Old English response to dominant colonial representations of Ireland, BUrnell's 'Landgartha' is a compelling fusion of English tragi-comedy with Irish storytelling.