The severed head and the grafted tongue : literature, translation and violence in early modern Ireland /
Palmer, Patricia,1957-author.
Includes bibliographical references (page 145-177) and index.
Introduction -- 1. 'A horses loade of heades': conquest and atrocity in early-modern Ireland -- 2. The romance of the severed head: Sir John Harington's translation of Orlando Furioso -- 3. Defaced: allegory, violence and romance recognition in The faerie queene -- 4. The head in a bag: Sir George Carew's translation of Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana -- 5. Elegy and afterlives.
English literature
Beheading in literature.
Violence in literature.
Romances, English
Romances
Beheading
Political violence
Ireland
British