Hydra’s Heads
Terence Hawkes, 22 February 1996
The Revolt of Owain Glyn Dŵr
by R.R. Davies.
Oxford, 401 pp., £20, November 1995,0 19 820508 2 Show More
by R.R. Davies.
Oxford, 401 pp., £20, November 1995,
The Prince’s Choice: A Personal Selection from Shakespeare
Hodder, 137 pp., £12.99, November 1995,0 340 66039 2 Show More
Hodder, 137 pp., £12.99, November 1995,
“... instrument for the manipulation of objectively formulated ‘law’ is its sinister shadow. R.R. Davies’s lively and authoritative account of the revolt of Owain Glyn Dŵr begins with exactly that point: that Wales inherits a duality of experience and commitment – a clash between ‘law’ and ‘lore’ – which makes it ungraspable as a single unified ... ”
