Hunangofiant difyr a dadlennol un o actoresau mwyaf talentog ac adnabyddus Cymru. Cawn hanes ei pherfformiadau ar lwyfan, radio a theledu ers deugain mlynedd, yn y Gymraeg, Saesneg a Ffrangeg. Mae yma storiau am enwogion, cariadon ac am gyfnodau cyffrous yn hanes Cymru.
Gwenlyn Parry was one of the most important Welsh-language playwrights of the twentieth century and played a key role in the popularisation and flourishing of drama in the theatre and on television during the 1970s and 1980s. Parry's major stage plays - Saer Doliau, Ty ar y Tywod, Y Ffin and Y Twr - had a substantial impact, and were instrumental in solidifying a new relationship between drama and theatrical production in Welsh, bringing the theatricality of the Absurd to a popular audience for the first time. His plays have been the subject of much critical attention in Welsh, and have been reinterpreted in production on many occasions, both in their original form and in translation. This study is the first extended treatment of his life and work in English, and examines the complex and occasionally paradoxical relationship between the autobiographical aspects of his writing and his use of theatrical form.
Hanes rhyfeddol Margaret Jones, merch o Rosllannerchrugog a ddaeth yn enwog yng Nghymru'r bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg fel 'y Gymraes o Ganaan' yn sgil y ffaith iddi deithio i bedwar ban byd a threulio cyfnodau hir yn byw dramor. Cyhoeddodd ddwy gyfrol o'i hatgofion, Llythyrau Cymraes o Wlad Canaan (1869) a Moroco, a'r hyn a welais yno (1883).
Mae'r llyfr yn adrodd hanes Kate Bosse-Griffiths a'i theulu cyn ac yn ystod yr Ail Ryfel Byd, ac yn disgrifio effeithiau polisi hil-laddiad y Natsiaid arni hi a'r teulu. Mae'n hanes ysgytwol a dirdynnol sy'n cynnwys llofruddiaeth ei mam, hunanladdiad ei modryb, diswyddiad ei thad oedd yn llawfeddyg llwyddiannus, ac erlid aelodau'r teulu i wledydd fel China a Sweden.
The relationship between nation and queer sexuality has long been a fraught one, for the sustaining myths of the former are often at odds with the needs of the latter. This collection of essays introduces readers to important historical and cultural figures and moments in queer life, and it addresses some of the urgent questions of queer belonging that face Wales today.
This is an introduction to the life and work of one of the greatest Welsh dramatists of this century. John Gwilym Jones (1904-1988) was also a short-story writer, novelist and literary critic whose work was almost exclusively in the Welsh language. The aim of this book is to present Jones's work to the English-speaking world.