| Collected Plays: Volume 1 Contributor(s): Soyinka, Wole (Author) |
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ISBN: 0192811363 ISBN-13: 9780192811363 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $20.69 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1973 Annotation: 'One of the finest poetic playwrights who have ever written in English' - Martin Esslin. 'A writer of genius' - Irish Times. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | American - African American - Literary Criticism | African |
| Dewey: 822 |
| LCCN: 74156793 |
| Series: V. 1: A Galaxy Book |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.1" W x 7.7" (0.45 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature, this Nigerian poet, playwright, and novelist writes of the rich cultural traditions as well as the hopes and frustrations of black Africa. This two-volume collection of his plays includes A Dance of the Forests, The Swamp Dwellers, The Strong Breed, The Road, and The Bacchae of Euripides in the first volume, and The Lion and the Jewel, Kongi's Harvest, The Trials of Brother Jero, Jero's Metamorphosis, and Madmen and Specialists in the second volume. |