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    Beunans Meriasek (English: The Life of Saint Meriasek) is a Cornish play completed in 1504. Its subject is the legends of the life of Saint Meriasek or...
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    it is celebrated in some places on 7 June). Until Beunans Ke came to light in 2000, Beunans Meriasek was the only known saint's play in Middle Cornish...
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  • Penryn. From this period also are the hagiographical dramas Beunans Meriasek (The Life of Meriasek) and Bewnans Ke (The Life of Ke), both of which feature...
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    Bewnans Ke (redirect from Beunans Ke)
    other evidence suggests some relationship with the other such work, Beunans Meriasek. The story has much correspondence with a French text, a translation...
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    Cornish language miracle plays, particularly the Ordinalia trilogy, the Beunans Meriasek, and the Bewnans Ke, were traditionally performed at the plain-an-gwarrys...
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    Britain. These are the Cornish-language works Beunans Meriasek and Beunans Ke, about the lives of Saints Meriasek and Kea, respectively. Other examples of...
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    Penzance Music Language Anglo-Cornish Cornish literature Ordinalia Beunans Meriasek Bewnans Ke Prayer Book Rebellion Radyo an Gernewegva Mythology Beast...
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  • 137. The portrayal of Tewdwr in other Tudor-era works such as Beunans Meriasek and Beunans Ke may be a satire against Henry VII Tudor in the wake of his...
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    appears to be the work of one scribe (Peniarth MS 67). Beunans Meriasek (The Life of St Meriasek) (1504), the earliest surviving manuscript in the Cornish...
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  • Gaul Meriasek, Breton saint, patron of Camborne Beunans Meriasek, a Middle Cornish miracle play that relates the legends of the life of Saint Meriasek Meriadoc...
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  • mid-fifteenth-century manuscript, Oxford MS. Bodl. 791. Beunans Meriasek (BM), ‘The Life of St. Meriasek’, MS written in 1504, but whose first ten pages were...
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    An earlier hobby horse is mentioned in the Cornish language drama Beunans Meriasek, a life of the Camborne saint, where it is associated with a troupe...
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  • Beunans Meriasek and author of several works of fiction. She graduated in English from the University of York in 1971. "A Critical Edition of Beunans...
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    Cornish language manuscripts, including the miracle plays Beunans Ke and Beunans Meriasek are thought to have originated at these ancient centres of...
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  • Tewdwr's appearances in Cornish literature—particularly the Tudor dramas Beunans Meriasek and Bewnans Ke—were satirical treatments of Henry VII of England following...
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    the most important surviving works of medieval Cornish literature is Beunans Meriasek, the Life of St Meriadoc the patron saint of Camborne. In the 19th...
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    longest single surviving work of Cornish literature is Beunans Meriasek (The Life of Meriasek), a two-day verse drama dated 1504, but probably copied...
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  • responsible for the first performance of the Cornish miracle play Beunans Meriasek since the Reformation in June 1924 (in English translation). There...
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    National Library of Wales as part of his bequests. Cornwall portal Beunans Meriasek, another play in the Cornish language Bewnans Ke, another play in Cornish...
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  • Hood and the Potter 1504 in literature – Jacopo Sannazaro's Arcadia; Beunans Meriasek 1505 in literature – Pietro Bembo's Gli Asolani 1506 in literature...
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    the Cornish miracle play Beunans Meriasek, Conan is a kinsman of Saint Meriasek who tries (unsuccessfully) to dissuade Meriasek from pursuing a religious...
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    Carmarthen Black Book of Chirk White Book of Rhydderch Book of Taliesin Beunans Meriasek Hengwrt Chaucer Peniarth 6. Contents include the earliest surviving...
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  • sculptura et pictura antiquorum Jacopo Sannazaro – Arcadia (romance) Beunans Meriasek (in Cornish) Pierre Gringore – Les Abus du monde Thomas More – Fortune...
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  • John Bodenham – Wits' Theater 1502 The Monologue of the Cowboy 1504 Beunans Meriasek (Cornish) 1508 Ludovico Ariosto – Cassaria The World and the Child...
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    early 16th-century plays Beunans Ke and Beunans Meriasek, in which he comes into conflict with Saint Kea and Saint Meriasek, respectively. Cornish Church...
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    Penzance Music Language Anglo-Cornish Cornish literature Ordinalia Beunans Meriasek Bewnans Ke Prayer Book Rebellion Radyo an Gernewegva Mythology Beast...
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    Cornwall. The sixteenth-century Cornish language drama Beunans Meriasek ('The Life of St Meriasek') at lines 2463–65 mentions four Cornish kings. The second...
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  • Translated by Alan S. Fedrick (1937–1975) Beunans Meriasek. Beunans Meriasek (The Life of Saint Meriasek) is a Cornish-language play completed in 1504...
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    the early 16th-century plays Beunans Ke and Beunans Meriasek, in which he comes into conflict with Saints Kea and Meriasek, respectively. Citations Doble...
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    Translation of William Jordan's 1611 Cornish play (1864) Beunans Meriasek The Life of Saint Meriasek Bishop and Confessor (1872) - Editor[Trubner & Co London]...
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