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Death and the king's horseman / Wole Soyinka.
LIBRA PR9387.9.S6 D4
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Soyinka, Wole
- Series:
- Methuen modern plays
- Methuen's modern plays
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Elesin--Drama.
- Elesin.
- Nigeria--History--Drama.
- Nigeria.
- History.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Physical Description:
- 77 pages ; 19 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Eyre Methuen, 1975.
- Summary:
- Elesin Oba, the King's Horseman, has a single destiny. When the King dies, he must commit ritual suicide and lead his King's favorite horse and dog through the passage to the world of the ancestors. A British colonial officer, Pilkings, intervenes.
- "This play, by the winner of a??Nobel Prize for Literature, asks: "On the authority of what gods" the white aliens rupture a world. It puts exciting political theatre back on the agenda ... a masterpiece of 20th century drama."-Guardian
- "The action of the play is as inevitable and eloquent as in Antigone: a clash of values and cultures so fundamental that tragedy (ensues): a tragedy for each individual, each tribe."-Daily Telegraph
- "A transfixing work of modern world drama."-Independent
- Notes:
- A play.
- ISBN:
- 0413333507 :
- OCLC:
- 1959826
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