The king's threshold : manuscript materials
(2011)

Nonfiction

eBook

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PUBLISHED
[United States]: Neeland Media LLC, 2011
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1 online resource

ISBN/ISSN
9781420942293 (electronic bk.) MWT11932894, 1420942298 (electronic bk.) 11932894
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"The King's Threshold," first performed by the Irish National Theatre Society in 1903, referred to an Irish tradition that dates back to the 7th-8th centuries of commoners enforcing hunger strikes against people of higher status to whom they were indebted. It told the story of a bard who undergoes a hunger strike against the king

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