Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Ancient Cornish Drama, Edited and Translated, Vol. 1 of 2
The three Dramas contained in these volumes constitute the most important relic known to exist of the Celtic dia lect once spoken in Cornwall. They are of greater amount than all the other re mains of the language taken together; and the only other Cornish composition left of the same antiquity, the poem of Mount Calvary, is barely equal to one fourth of their extent. It will be under stood, as a matter of course, that quantity and antiquity are here the chief elements of value, and that, apart from some evi dence of the condition and culture of the Cornish Celts of the fourteenth or fifteenth century, the term important applies to the language only; in regard to the matter, there is nothing in these Dramas that may not be found in such as have been printed in English, French, and Latin, under the designation of Mysteries.
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