IN THIS PLAY is presented the unvarnished story of the last years of the Emperor Napoleon's life in captivity on the island of St. Helena. Here, with all his 'conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils shrunk to this little measure' of Longwood and its petty estate, the Emperor is revealed as an essentially human personality, playing the chief part in a tragi-comedy in which he is supported by the loyal but exasperating members of his little court, the faintly sinister, yet pathetic, figure of Sir Hudson Lowe, his jailer, and the officers of the English garrison. Norman Edwards, the author of Quarrel Island, contributes a short introductory article on the story behind the play on page 622.