Henri Christophe: A Chronicle in Seven Scenes
Henri Christophe: A Chronicle in Seven Scenes (1949) is the first play by Derek Walcott, written when he was 19 years old.[1] It is about the self-declared King Henri Christophe of Haiti, a former slave who became a general under Toussaint Louverture in the Haitian Revolution. Later, he ruled the northern part of the nation from 1807 to 1820, first as president and from 1811 as king.[2] At the time the South was governed by the president Alexandre Pétion, a gens de couleur (free man of color; in Haiti, such people were generally of French and African descent).
The play was first produced in 1952 in London, by Errol Hill[3] and in 1954 at the University College of the West Indies. In 1968, it was revived at the Trinidad and Tobago Festival.[4]
Bibliography
[edit | edit source]- Henri Christophe: A Chronicle in Seven Scenes, Advocate Co., 1949; reprint, G. Collier, Justus Liebig University, 1993
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ "Derek Walcott", Poetry Foundation
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