Death and the King's Horseman: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism
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by Wole Soyinka
From the Publisher:
Death and the King's Horseman (1975) is the most widely read work by Nigerian author Wole Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature. The text is accompanied by an introduction and explanatory annotations.
"Backgrounds and Contexts" provides readers with a thorough understanding of the play's traditional African contexts.
"Criticism" includes nine major essays on Death and the King's Horseman, focusing on the difficulties the play presents to its readers.
A Selected Bibliography is also included.
Chicago Tribune Soyinka both entertains and asks subtle questions about mass psychology, individual psychology, and universal human struggles of the will.
Paperback: (textbook) 272 pages
From the Publisher:
Death and the King's Horseman (1975) is the most widely read work by Nigerian author Wole Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature. The text is accompanied by an introduction and explanatory annotations.
"Backgrounds and Contexts" provides readers with a thorough understanding of the play's traditional African contexts.
"Criticism" includes nine major essays on Death and the King's Horseman, focusing on the difficulties the play presents to its readers.
A Selected Bibliography is also included.
Chicago Tribune Soyinka both entertains and asks subtle questions about mass psychology, individual psychology, and universal human struggles of the will.
Paperback: (textbook) 272 pages
