The Maltese Janus : Francis Ebejer and his drama

Abstract

As well as being a novelist and poet, Maltese writer Francis Ebejer (1925--93) was the author of numerous plays in both Maltese and English. Though his importance in the development of modem Maltese drama has been widely recognized in his native country, his dramatic output has attracted very little attention, theatrically or critically, in the English-speaking world. Ebejer's name, it seems safe to say, is hardly known among Western theater practitioners or academic critics. Although many of his plays are available in English (either because they were originally written in that language or because Ebejer translated his Maltese originals into it), they are published in Malta and hence not easily accessible.