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The Benjy trilogy / Roderick Walcott.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walcott, Roderick.
- Series:
- Caribbean literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marginality, Social--Drama.
- Marginality, Social.
- Caribbean Area--Drama.
- Caribbean Area.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 108 p. ; 19 cm.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Kingston, Jamaica : Ian Randle Publishers, c2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Roderick Walcott is one of the Caribbean's most distinguished playwrights, a status confirmed by the numerous awards won at annual art festivals held in the region.This collection, The Benjy Trilogy, provides an accessible and enjoyable introduction to the works of Roderick Walcott, including 'The Harrowing of Benjy', which has the distinction of being the most staged play in the English-speaking Caribbean. 'A Flight of Sparrows' and 'The Education of Alfie' complete the trilogy.The reader of these plays will not only come to see the playwright's deep concern and curiosity for those persons on the margins of Caribbean society but will also begin to enter the world of a dramatist who has loved, reflected and written about St Lucia and the Caribbean for some fifty years.
- Contents:
- The harrowing of Benjy
- A flight of sparrows
- The education of Alfie.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 9789766376444
- 9766376441
- OCLC:
- 711591036
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