Main characters include a couple of profs. John and Holy Ghost," or "Spook" for short. Robertson Davies helped give it its protected college-within-a-larger university character, right down to the neo-Gothic architecture.Īll this matters because much of CORNISH TRILOGY takes place in a simulacrum of Toronto's Massey called the "College of St. (In case you were wondering, Massey was an endowed startup which opened its doors in 1963 and drew on the Massey-Harris-Ferguson wealth, as in farm equipment). There's the largely comic SALTERTON TRILOGY, written in the Fifties the best-known DEPTFORD TRILOGY from the late Sixties/Seventies.ĭavies' CORNISH TRILOGY was written during the 1980s, just after Davies' thirteen-year term as founding Master of Toronto University's Massey College came to an end. The late Robertson Davies is remembered best for his three trilogies (although he may not have intended the individual novels to form "trilogies" from the git-go).
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