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The Odyssey: A Stage Version

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Availability:In StockContributor:Derek Walcott, HomerPublish date:1993-07-01Pages:176
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374523879ISBN-10:374523878UPC:9780374523879Book Category:DramaBook Subcategory:American, Caribbean & Latin American, Ancient & ClassicalSize:8.50 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCNRMZ73ND

The Odyssey: A Stage Version

With its inspired counterpointing of Homeric and Caribbean themes, Derek Walcott's play The Odyssey, commissioned by Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company, springs from the same imaginative sources as his epic poem Omeros.

"[The Odyssey features Walcott's] voluptuous metaphor making and severe truth telling."--Time

Episodes of the story of Odysseus' protracted wanderings from fallen Troy to his...

Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374523879ISBN-10:374523878UPC:9780374523879Book Category:DramaBook Subcategory:American, Caribbean & Latin American, Ancient & ClassicalSize:8.50 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCNRMZ73ND
Derek Walcott (1930-2017) was born in St. Lucia, the West Indies, in 1930. His Collected Poems: 1948-1984 was published in 1986, and his subsequent works include a book-length poem, Omeros (1990); a collection of verse, The Bounty (1997); and, in an edition illustrated with his own paintings, the long poem Tiepolo's Hound (2000). His numerous plays include The Haitian Trilogy (2001) and Walker...
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Derek Walcott, Homer

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