Table of Contents

• Foreword vii
  Lawrence Scott
• Preface ix
• Acknowledgements xi
• Note on the Language of the Plays xiii
  Lise Winer
• Martial Law in Trinidad, by E.L. Joseph
• Introduction to Martial Law in Trinidad......... 3
  Bridget Brereton
  A Biographical Note on Edward Lanza Joseph. 10
  Bridget Brereton
  Martial Law in Trinidad 21
  Annotations to Martial Law in Trinidad 53
• Past and Present, by Anonymous
• Introduction to Past and Present 63br>Bridget Brereton
  Past and Present 73
  Annotations to Past and Present 99
  Select Bibliography............ 109

About the Author

Bridget Brereton is emerita professor of history, the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. Her many publications include Race Relations in Colonial Trinidad, 1870–1900, A History of Modern Trinidad, 1783–1962 and (as editor) volume 5 of UNESCO's General History of the Caribbean.

Lise Winer is emerita professor of language education, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Her many publications include Varieties of English around the World: Trinidad and Tobago, Badjohns, Bhaaji and Banknote Blue: Essays on the Social History of Language in Trinidad and Tobago, and (as editor) the Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad and Tobago.