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Death and the King's Horseman de Wole Soyinka

Death and the King's Horseman

Autor Wole Soyinka
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 1975
Based on the real events that took place in the ancient Yoruba city of Nigeria in 1946, this play tells how Simon Pilkings, a district officer, intervenes to prevent the ritual suicide demanded by the death of the King. There follow drastic repercussions in both indigenous and colonial communities.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780413333605
ISBN-10: 0413333604
Pagini: 96
Dimensiuni: 129 x 197 x 7 mm
Greutate: 0.1 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Academic Methuen
Locul publicării:United Kingdom

Caracteristici

"The action of the play is as inevitable and eloquent as in Antigone: a clash of values and cultures so fundamental that tragedy issues: a tragedy for each individual, each tribe" Michael Schmidt, Daily Telegraph

Notă biografică

Wole Soyinka - playwright, novelist, poet and polemical essayist - was born in Nigeria in 1934. Educated there and at Leeds University, he worked in the British theatre before returning to West Africa in 1960. In 1986 he became the first African writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. He is currently Woodruff Professor of the Arts, Emory University, Atlanta.

Recenzii

This rich turbulent piece, which starts as folk comedy and ends as Greek tragedy, takes on board an abundance of ideas: identity, tradition, the passage from life to death . . . Soyinka's play is as much philosophical as political.
Based on events in 1940s Nigeria, the story attains a more classically tragic power in showing two forces unable to understand each other. On one side there is the Yoruba culture, in which the death of a king is followed by the suicide of his favoured liegeman . . . on the other, the powers that be with their contrary code that suicide is illegal and to be prevented, even if it costs more lives.
Wole Soyinka's play is one of the great creations of twentieth-century theatre: it has the fire, grandeur, cruelty and humanity of Greek tragedy, the moral cutting edge of modern political thinking, and the African writer's take on his own people's values: loving mocking, ironical and ruthlessly observant . . . Soyinka writes with the moral ambivalence and relentless questioning of Shakespeare.

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Based on real events that took place in Oyo, the ancient Yoruba city of Nigeria, in 1946, Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka's play tells how Simon Pilkings, a well-meaning District Officer, intervenes to prevent the ritual suicide of the Yoruba chief, Elesin. This Student Edition includes a full introduction, commentary and questions for study.