Mount Calvary

Cornish drama

Also known as: “Pascon agan Arluth”

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In Cornish literature
…Lord”; also called in English Mount Calvary), about Christ’s suffering and Crucifixion, was written in the 14th century. Literature in Middle Cornish otherwise takes the form of lengthy religious plays produced for popular audiences and performed in the open. These are in verse, typically consisting of four- and seven-syllable lines,…
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In Celtic literature: Cornish
The Pascon Agan Arluth (“Passion of Our Lord”), of which 259 stanzas have survived, has passages common to the Ordinalia and must have been composed about the same time.
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