West Indian Drama (Critical Survey of Drama, Second Revised Edition)
Introduction
Since Christopher Columbus’s voyage, the people of the West Indies (or the Caribbean, as the region is now more commonly known) have been sharply divided between the privileged and the dispossessed, the elite and the common, the rich and the poor. (Until 1838, there was also the division between the free and the enslaved.) The development of drama in the West Indies, or the Caribbean, closely follows the region’s historical and cultural development, from its colonial beginnings, through the periods of slavery and emancipation, to the growing national...
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