The Odyssey: A Stage Version

by Derek Walcott and Homer

Book Overview

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 island...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374523878
• ISBN13: 9780374523879
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.5"