Editing Cornwall (section)

====Other literary works====
Cornwall produced a substantial number of [[passion play]]s such as the [[Ordinalia]] during the Middle Ages. Many are still extant, and provide valuable information about the Cornish language. See also [[Cornish literature]]

[[Colin Wilson]], a prolific writer who is best known for his debut work ''[[The Outsider (Colin Wilson)|The Outsider]]'' (1956) and for ''[[The Mind Parasites]]'' (1967), lived in [[Gorran Haven]], a small village on the southern Cornish coast. The writer [[D. M. Thomas]] was born in Redruth but lived and worked in Australia and the United States before returning to his native Cornwall. He has written novels, poetry, and other works, including translations from Russian.

[[Thomas Hardy]]'s drama ''[[The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall|The Queen of Cornwall]]'' (1923) is a version of the Tristan story; the second act of [[Richard Wagner]]'s opera ''[[Tristan und Isolde]]'' takes place in Cornwall, as do [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]'s operettas ''[[The Pirates of Penzance]]'' and ''[[Ruddigore]]''.

[[Clara Vyvyan]] was the author of various books about many aspects of Cornish life such as ''Our Cornwall''. She once wrote: "The Loneliness of Cornwall is a loneliness unchanged by the presence of men, its freedoms a freedom inexpressible by description or epitaph. Your cannot say Cornwall is this or that. Your cannot describe it in a word or visualise it in a second. You may know the country from east to west and sea to sea, but if you close your eyes and think about it no clear-cut image rises before you. In this quality of changefulness have we possibly surprised the secret of Cornwall's wild spirit—in this intimacy the essence of its charm? Cornwall!".<ref>Quoted in Croxford, Bob (1993) ''From Cornwall with Love''. Mullion: Atmosphere; p. 22</ref>
A level of ''[[Tomb Raider: Legend]]'', a game dealing with Arthurian Legend, takes place in Cornwall at a museum above King Arthur's tomb. The adventure game ''The Lost Crown'' is set in the fictional town of Saxton, which uses the Cornish settlements of Polperro, Talland and Looe as its model.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.darklingroom.co.uk/thelostcrown/realsaxton/|title=The 'Real' World of Saxton: From The Lost Crown|website=Darklingroom.co.uk|access-date=5 January 2019|archive-date=23 April 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110423065722/http://www.darklingroom.co.uk/thelostcrown/realsaxton/|url-status=live}}</ref>

The fairy tale [[Jack the Giant Killer]] takes place in Cornwall.<ref>{{Cite web|title=English Fairy Tales – Jack the Giant-Killer (by Joseph Jacobs)|url=http://www.authorama.com/english-fairy-tales-21.html|access-date=24 January 2022|website=www.authorama.com}}</ref>

''[[The Mousehole Cat]]'', a children's book written by [[Antonia Barber]] and illustrated by [[Nicola Bayley]], is set in the Cornish village [[Mousehole]] and based on the legend of [[Tom Bawcock]] and the continuing tradition of [[Tom Bawcock's Eve]].