PHILIP CESAIRE
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Plays by Philip Cesaire
Tempest, A |
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London, | ISBN | - | |||
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| Notes: | Original Playwright - Aime Cesaire | |||||
| Synopsis: | A witty and fiercely anti-colonialist revision of Shakespeare's island fling, Cesaire turns it into a brilliant assertion of black identity. Prospero is an exiled tyrant, while Caliban becomes a mutinous figure who has clear affinities with Malcolm X. Cesaire, major poet, Martinique politician, and coiner of the term "negritude" has presented not simply a new reading of The Tempest but an original play of astonishing power. | |||||