Brendan Kennelly's CromwellBlack Comedy as exorcism

  1. Villacañas Palomo, Beatriz
Journal:
Estudios ingleses de la Universidad Complutense

ISSN: 1133-0392

Year of publication: 2003

Issue: 11

Pages: 137-157

Type: Article

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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