The Joker of Seville & O Babylon!

Download or read book The Joker of Seville & O Babylon! written by Derek Walcott and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1978 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1959, Derek Walcott has directed and written for the Trinidad Theatre Workshop. The Joker of Seville, a comedy based on Tirso de Molina's El Burlador de Sevilla, was commissioned by England's Royal Shakespeare Company. Walcott's sensitivity to the pacing, meter, and lyricism of the original makes his first attempt at adaptation an extraordinary accomplishment. O Babylon! brings life ro the Rastafarian sect in Jamaica, which grew during Marcus Garvey's exile to that country and has recently been popularized through the lyrics of reggae music.