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| Author | : Derek Walcott |
| Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 2014-09-09 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1466880376 |
Since 1959, Derek Walcott has directed and written for the Trinidad Theatre Workshop. The Joker of Seville, a comedy based on Tirso de Molina's El Burlador de Sevilla, was commissioned by England's Royal Shakespeare Company. Walcott's sensitivity to the pacing, meter, and lyricism of the original makes his first attempt at adaptation an extraordinary accomplishment. O Babylon! brings life the Rastafarian sect in Jamaica, which grew during Marcus Garvey's exile to that country and has recently been popularized through the lyrics of reggae music. Mr. Walcott's plays have been produced by the New York Shakespeare Festival, the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, and the Negro Ensemble Company. Dream on Monkey Mountain, the title play of his earlier collection, won the Obie Award for a Distringuished Foreign Play when produced in New York in 1971. It was deemed "a masterpiece" by Edith Oliver in The New Yorker. "Dream on Monkey Mountain," she wrote, "is a poem in dramatic form or a drama in poetry, and poetry is rare in the modern theatre. Every line of it plays....there is a sound psychological basis for every action and emotion."
| Author | : Derek Walcott |
| Publisher | : Farrar Straus Giroux |
| Total Pages | : 275 |
| Release | : 1978-01-01 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780374514211 |
| Author | : Martin Banham |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 1994-08-04 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780521411394 |
Comprehensive alphabetical guide to theatre in Africa and the Caribbean: national essays and entries on countries and performers.
| Author | : Robert D. Hamner |
| Publisher | : Lynne Rienner Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 504 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780894101427 |
The articles in this collection are representative of the criticism that has followed Walcott's career from the 1940s into the 1990s. Ten entries by Walcott himself (including one not previously published and two vital interviews) are complemented by some 40 incisive essays and reviews, ranging from professional assessments to the rare, personal observations of Walcott's earliest mentors.
| Author | : John Thieme |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 278 |
| Release | : 1999-07-02 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780719042065 |
John Thieme here provides a comprehensive study of Derek Walcott's writing from its beginnings in the 1940s to his most recent work. Walcott's poetry and drama are set against the background of various contexts and intertexts--Caribbean, European and other--that have shaped him as a writer. The book contains a broad overview of Walcott's career for students and readers coming to the work of the 1992 Nobel Laureate for the first time.
| Author | : Sylvia Lovina Chidi |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 723 |
| Release | : 2014-06-13 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1291909338 |
This book summarizes the lives of the great black people that have made great contributions to the lives of many Worldwide. The book has brief detailed biographies of black activists, scientists, educators, entertainers, musicians, inventors, politicians, authors, sportsmen & women, and others who have surpassed the normal to make historical marks on society. The biographical account of each individual provides relevant dates, events and achievements by the individual. There are pictures and excellent drawings that highlight particular moments in history. This is one of the greatest pieces of work on black history and it will appeal to everyone including, students, groups, universities, libraries, schools and anyone interested in history of black people in the World.
| Author | : Christopher B. Balme |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 334 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780198184447 |
A study of post-colonial drama and theatre. It examines how dramatists from various societies have attempted to fuse the performance idioms of their traditions with the Western dramatic form, demonstrating how the dynamics of syncretic theatrical texts function in performance.
| Author | : Derek Walcott |
| Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Total Pages | : 125 |
| Release | : 2014-06-24 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1466874449 |
In Moon-Child, the poet and playwright Derek Walcott returns to the island of St. Lucia for a lush and vivid tale of spirituality and the supernatural. In this lyrical new work, the crafty Planter (who may or may not be the Devil in disguise) schemes to take over the island for development. Between him and his goal lies the Bouton family, whose ailing matriarch strikes a bargain: if any of her three sons can get the Devil to feel anger and human weakness, the islanders will win the right to spend the rest of their days in wealth and peace. In a fable that reaches from St. Lucia's verdant forests to an explosive ending amid its plantation homes, Walcott has crafted a masterwork rich in flowing language and colorful Creole patois. With roots in Caribbean folklore and an eye toward the island's postcolonial legacy and complex racial identities, Moon-Child marks a remarkable new addition to the canon of one of the world's most prolific Caribbean playwrights.
| Author | : Derek Walcott |
| Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
| Total Pages | : 326 |
| Release | : 2014-09-09 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 1466880406 |
A Masterpiece of Modern Epic Poetry Dive into the poignant verses of Omeros, a grand opus of epic poetry penned by Nobel laureate Derek Walcott. Told in multiple chapters and tracing two currents of history, this work offers an immersive blend of historic account and personal sentiment. Titled with the Greek name for Homer, Omeros elegantly traverses the surface and depths of history. While wrapping you in the intricacies of Caribbean literature and Latin American poetry, the verses of Omeros take you on an emotional journey through Saint Lucian landscapes. Celebrate the spirit of this significant contribution to Caribbean poetry and St. Lucian literature while unraveling the complex themes of 20th-century poetry, including slavery, Native American history, and more. “One of the great poems of our time.” —John Lucas, New Statesman
| Author | : Line Henriksen |
| Publisher | : Rodopi |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9042021497 |
"This comparative study investigates the epic lineage that can be traced back from Derek Walcott's Omeros and Ezra Pound's Cantos through Dante's Divina Commedia to the epic poems of Virgil and Homer, and identifies and discusses in detail a number of recurrent key topoi. A fresh definition of the concept of genre is worked out and presented, based on readings of Homer. The study reads Pound's and Walcott's poetics in the light of Roman Jakobson's notions of metonymy and metaphor, placing their long poems at the respective opposite ends of their language poles." "Although there has already been an intermittent critical focus on the 'classical' (and 'Dantean') antecedents of Walcott's poetry, the present study is the first to bring together the whole range of epic intertextualities underlying Omeros, and the first to read this Caribbean masterpiece in the context of Pound's achievement." --Book Jacket.
