Caribbean Thoughts on Shakespeare: Recent Episodes
Deborah Jean-Baptiste-Samuel
This is Episode 4, entitled ‘Caliban Hears Drums’.
This poetic piece goes directly to memory, ancestral past, rhythms of the drum, playing always in Caliban’s ear. Remembrance and ancestral rhythm is part of the reality for the person in the Caribbean diaspora.
So far I have presented to you "Caliban the Native", "Ariel" and now - "Before Prospero Reach".
This marks three poetic renditions based on Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Look forward to some discussion in the next episode. Stay tuned to "Caribbean Thoughts on Shakespeare".
Episode 2 features my original performance poem on Ariel.
Ariel was freed from cloven pine by Prospero, then to be made his slave. So Ariel is servant second time around, another plight of the native.
My original poetry on Caliban, from William Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', through post-colonial lens.