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The book is obviously the work of a meticulous fan. Theatre Scotland the book is a mine of information...research for this book will be valued by thoughtful Caribbean theatre goers and theatre historians. Sunday Guardian ...pioneering book, which weaves theatre history and literary criticism together in a fresh and rewarding way Caribbean Beat An important resource book... this is a very significant piece of work. The portrait of Walcott that emerges is complex and offers... fascinating insights into a great but often difficult man. In King, he has found a serious and careful chronicler, the court historian to the prince of Caribbean playwrights. Elaine Savory, Research in African Literatures I imagine that Derek Walcott and West Indian Drama will prove an eye-opener to anyone who assumed that Caribbean theatre began and ended with Errol John's Moon on a Rainbow Shawl. Bruce King's book reveals just how wide of the mark they were. London Magazine This book is not the academic study one might expect. It combines thoroughness of research, an acute sense of the writer's intentions, great literary flair, with a refreshing disrespect for whatever is considered politically correct ...a superb achievement...Bruce King compells us to re-evaluate our vision and grant him more attention as a playwright...an enthusiastic tribute to the often heroic will of Walcott and his actors. Afram Newsletter no 41 this is a detailed study of a post-colonial Caribbean theatre company and the problems of creating 'serious' theatre in the former colonies. - Communaute Francaise, centre belge de l'IIT Substantial study ... Bruce King's account of the Workshop and the man is admirably clear and to the point. Planet substantial study...this book is essentially the story of a very particular theatre company as it grew up and evolved over four tempestuous decades on Trinidad...Bruce King's account of the Workshop and the man is admirably clear and to the point...this is a superb book - scholarly, scrupulous, immensley detailed but also very readable...a major achievement. Planet - the Welsh Internationalist

From the hardback: `The book is obviously the work of a meticulous fan.' Theatre Scotland `the book is a mine of information...research for this book will be valued by thoughtful Caribbean theatre goers and theatre historians.' Sunday Guardian `...pioneering book, which weaves theatre history and literary criticism together in a fresh and rewarding way' Caribbean Beat `An important resource book... this is a very significant piece of work. The portrait of Walcott that emerges is complex and offers... fascinating insights into a great but often difficult man. In King, he has found a serious and careful chronicler, the court historian to the prince of Caribbean playwrights.' Elaine Savory, Research in African Literatures `I imagine that Derek Walcott and West Indian Drama will prove an eye-opener to anyone who assumed that Caribbean theatre began and ended with Errol John's Moon on a Rainbow Shawl. Bruce King's book reveals just how wide of the mark they were.' London Magazine `This book is not the academic study one might expect. It combines thoroughness of research, an acute sense of the writer's intentions, great literary flair, with a refreshing disrespect for whatever is considered politically correct ...a superb achievement...Bruce King compells us to re-evaluate our vision and grant him more attention as a playwright...an enthusiastic tribute to the often heroic will of Walcott and his actors.' Afram Newsletter no 41 this is a detailed study of a post-colonial Caribbean theatre company and the problems of creating 'serious' theatre in the former colonies. - Communaute Francaise, centre belge de l'IIT `Substantial study ... Bruce King's account of the Workshop and the man is admirably clear and to the point.' Planet `substantial study...this book is essentially the story of a very particular theatre company as it grew up and evolved over four tempestuous decades on Trinidad...Bruce King's account of the Workshop and the man is admirably clear and to the point...this is a superb book - scholarly, scrupulous, immensley detailed but also very readable...a major achievement.' Planet - the Welsh Internationalist

A detailed and scholarly work, this title fills a gap in theater history....Recommended for large academic collections. --Library Journal<br> King is a committed admirer of Walcott, and he has written a book that is simultaneously a history of the Trinidad Theatre Workshop and a celebration of the man who founded it. --Bostonian<br> The book is obviously the work of a meticulous fan. --Theatre Scotland<br> [A] pioneering book, which weaves theatre history and literary criticism together in a fresh and rewarding way. --Caribbean Beat<br> The book is a mine of information. --Sunday Guardian<br>

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Bruce King has held professorships or distinguished visiting professorships at Ibadan, Lagos, Stirling, Windsor (Canada), Canterbury (NZ), Ben Gurion (Israel), Paris III, Paris VII, and North Alabama. He is author of Three Indian Poets (OUP New Delhi, 1991); The New English Literatures: Cultural Nationalism in a Changing World (Macmillan, and St Martin's Press NY, 1980); Literatures of the World in English (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974); and series editor of English Dramatists (Macmillan - 14 books); and Modern Dramatists (Macmillan, Grove Press and St Martin's Press, NY).

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