- Dream on Monkey Mountain : and other plays / Derek Walcott.
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- Language:
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- English
- Creator:
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- Walcott, Derek
- Call number:
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- N-003515
- PR6045.A26 D7 1970
- Extent:
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- 326 pages ; 22 cm
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- Book
- Type:
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- Drama
- Publisher:
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- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1970]
- ©1970
- Subject:
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- Saint Lucian drama (English)—20th century
- West Indies—Drama
- scripts (documents)
- Plays (Performed works).
- Drama
- Authors' autographs (Provenance)
- Author:
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- Walcott, Derek
- Date:
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- 1970-1970
- Identifier:
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- ark:/88435/dcrj430g95r
- Range label:
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- Logical
- Contents:
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- What the twilight says : an overture
- The sea at Dauphin
- Ti-Jean and his brothers
- Malcochon, or the six in the rain
- Dream on Monkey Mountain.
- Provenance:
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- Princeton copy 1 Signed by the author on title page.
- Spatial:
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- West Indies
- Binding note:
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- Princeton copy 1 In original dust jacket.
- Abstract:
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- On a Caribbean island, the morning after a full moon, Felix Hobain tears through the market in a drunken rage. Taken away to sober up in jail, all that night he is gripped by hallucinations: the impoverished hermit believes he has become a healer, walking from village to village, tending to the sick, waiting for a sign from God. In this dream, his one companion, Moustique, wants to exploit his power. Moustique decides to impersonate a prophet himself, ignoring a coffin-maker who warns him he will die and enraging the people of the island. Hobain, half-awake in his desolate jail cell, terrorized by the specter of his friend's corruption, clings to his visionary quest. He will try to transform himself; to heal Moustique, his jailer, and his jail-mates; and to be a leader for his people. Dream on Monkey Mountain was awarded the 1971 Obie Award for a Distinguished Foreign Play when it was first presented in New York, and Edith Oliver, writing in The New Yorker, called it "a masterpiece."