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Collected Plays: Volume 2: The Lion and the Jewel; Kongi's Harvest; The Trials of Brother Jero; Jero's Metamorphosis; Madmen a

by Wole Soyinka

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`The Lion and the Jewel alone is enough to establish Nigeria as the most fertile new source of English-speaking drama since Synge''s discovery of the Western Isles.'' The TimesThe ironic development and consequences of `progress'' may be traced throu... Read more
`The Lion and the Jewel alone is enough to establish Nigeria as the most fertile new source of English-speaking drama since Synge''s discovery of the Western Isles.'' The TimesThe ironic development and consequences of `progress'' may be traced through both the themes and the tone of the works included in this second volume of Wole Soyinka''s plays. The Lion and the Jewel shows an ineffectual assault on past tradition soundly defeated. In Kongi''s Harvest, however, thepretensions of Kongi''s regime are also fatal. The denouement points the way forward. The two Brother Jero plays pursue that way, the comic `propheteering'' of the earlier play giving way to the sardonic reality of Jero''s Metamorphosis. Madmen and Specialists, Soyinka''s most pessimistic play, concernsthe physical, mental, and moral destruction of modern civil war. Less

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File size7.72 X 5.08 X 0.71 in
Print pages288
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date November 1, 1973
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780192811646
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Wole Soyinka
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Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka (born 13 July 1934), known as Wole Soyinka, is a Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist in the English language. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in L...

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