Marcel Dubé occupies a unique position in the history of Canadian drama: starting to write in the early 1950s, he rapidly created for French-Canadian theater a "native" repertoire of plays where none had existed before, thus breaking the colonial-culture habit of reliance on foreign models and imports. Because of the special combination of historical and sociocultural factors at the time (emerging national awareness, increased interest in theater, beginnings of television), Dubé represents the rare case of a writer for whom quantity of output has been as important as quality. In his first twenty years as a dramatist, he wrote stage plays for television and radio, and television serials; he also did a number of translations and adaptations. In the 1970s, Dubé's productivity declined, partly due to ill health. In 1977, when he accepted a government position with the Office de la Langue Française...