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Death and the King's Horseman de Wole Soyinka

Death and the King's Horseman: Modern Classics

Autor Wole Soyinka
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 27 ian 2016
Elesin Oba, the King's Horseman, has a single destiny. When the King dies, he must commit ritual suicide and lead his King's favourite horse and dog through the passage to the world of the ancestors. A British Colonial Officer, Pilkings, intervenes to prevent the death and arrests Elesin. The play is a set text for NEAB GCSE, NEAB A Level and NEAB A/S Level. 'A masterpiece of 20th century drama' - Guardian "A transfixing work of modern world drama" (Independent); "clearly a masterpiece. . . he achieves the full impact of Greek tragedy" (Irving Wardle, Independent on Sunday); "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)
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781474260763
ISBN-10: 1474260764
Pagini: 96
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:POD
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Methuen Drama
Seria Modern Classics

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Author won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986

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.

Descriere

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.