Brendan Kennelly's CromwellBlack Comedy as exorcism
ISSN: 1133-0392
Year of publication: 2003
Issue: 11
Pages: 137-157
Type: Article
More publications in: Estudios ingleses de la Universidad Complutense
Abstract
This article analyses how the nightmare of Irish history becomes black comedy, de- sentimentalised and thus all the more intense. We shall see Cromwell as poetry dealing