Fiction
As well as in Shakespeare, Glyndŵr, has been featured in a number of works of literature and is the subject of several historical novels, including:
- John Cowper Powys: Owen Glendower (1940)
- Edith Pargeter: A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury (1972)
- Rosemary Hawley Jarman: Crown in Candlelight (1978)
- Malcolm Pryce: A Dragon to Agincourt - Y Lolfa ISBN 0-86243-684-2
He is also a character in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 and was the hero of James Hill's UK TV movie Owain, Prince of Wales, broadcast in 1983 in the early days of Channel 4/S4C.
He also has a small role as a past Knight of the Word and a ghost who serves the Lady in Terry Brooks' Word/Void trilogy. In the books, he is John Ross' ancestor.
He appeared as an agent of the Light in Susan Cooper's book Silver on the Tree, part of The Dark is Rising Sequence.
For a study of the various ways Glyndŵr has been portrayed in Welsh-language literature of the modern period, see E. Wyn James, Glyndŵr a Gobaith y Genedl: Agweddau ar y Portread o Owain Glyndŵr yn Llenyddiaeth y Cyfnod Modern (English: Glyndower and the Hope of the Nation: Attitudes to the Portrait of Owen Glyndower in Modern Age Literature) (Aberystwyth: Cymdeithas Llyfrau Ceredigion, 2007).
A chef takes the name of Glyndŵr in "Gorgon's Wood", an episode of Jonathan Creek. His descendants are portrayed as early settlers in the north eastern United States in Madeleine L'Engle's 3rd book in the Time Quartet series A Swiftly Tilting Planet
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