THE PRINCESS OF THE TUATHA
THE PRINCESS OF THE TUATHA

Summary/Abstract: Mexico is a country that D. H. Lawrence found fascinating especially because if its mythical past – a space where the ancients Aztecs and their gods created impressive and perennial monuments, reminders of past glory. For him Mexico was a country where his theory about returning and reviving gods was to be given the well-known Lawrentian shape. In the ‘The Princess’ it is that area of the ancient Aztec empire nowadays called New Mexico that constitutes the setting of this short story written immediately after ‘St Mawr’. In order to remove any overstated tendency of my reading of this tale, I shall insert two notes written by Lawrence about the genesis of ‘The Princess’.

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