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The Odyssey : A Stage Version
The Odyssey A Stage Version
Author: Derek Walcott
With its inspired counterpointing of Homeric and Caribbean themes, Derek Walcott's new play, commissioned by Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company, springs from the same imaginative sources as his epic poem Omeros. — Episodes of the story of Odysseus' protracted wanderings from fallen Troy to his island home of Ithaca are pungently intersper...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780374523879
ISBN-10: 0374523878
Publication Date: 7/1/1993
Pages: 164
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Homers classic retold as a play with some Caribbean overtones. For me, much too abstract.
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I enjoyed reading this very much, though I believe this play must be read by someone who is already fairly familiar with the original story itself, but I'm just stating the obvious. I enjoyed the bits of unexpected humor here and there, and I really enjoyed the ending, where (slight spoiler alert, avert eyes now!) Odysseus confuses the suitors with soldiers from Troy. That last bit seemed to add much more of a human quality to the story impossible to find in the original, where Odysseus was written to be a god-like figure. Happily, he's all mortal here.


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