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Soyinka Plays: 1

Brother Jero; Camwood on the Leaves; Death & the King's Horseman; Madmen & Specialists; Opera Wonyosi

Wole Soyinka author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:13th Sep '84

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Soyinka Plays: 1 cover

Author won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986

"Madman and Specialists" examines the way in which war exposes and clarifies human conduct; "Opera Woynosi" is adpated from Gay's "The Beggar's Opera" and is a fierce assault on totalitarianism; and four other Wole Soyinka plays are included in this volume.Six masterful works by the Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian playwright. Death and the King's Horseman: 'A transfixing work of modern world drama' (Independent); Madmen and Specialists: 'A luminous play, examining the way in which war exposes and clarifies human conduct' (Observer); Opera Wonyosi, adapted from Gay's The Beggar's Opera: 'Swaggering and scabrous, at once a verbal spree and a fierce assault on totalitarianism' (Observer). The volume also contains The Trials of Brother Jero and Jero's Metamorphosis, classic comedies of modern Nigerian life based on the hilarious and manipulative transformations of a preacher, and Camwood on the Leaves, a haunting radio play, which evokes a divided community.

ISBN: 9780413553508

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 456g

400 pages