Death
and the King’s Horseman Wole
Soyinka; Edited by Simon Gikandi, University of Michigan
ISBN
0-393-97761-7
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paper
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128 pages/1 map/3 illustrations
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Dec.
2002
Death and the King’s
Horseman (1975) is the most widely read work by Nigerian
author Wole Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature.
The text is accompanied by an introduction and explanatory annotations.
"Backgrounds and Contexts" provides readers with
a thorough understanding of the play’s traditional African
contexts.
"Criticism" includes
nine major essays on Death and the King’s Horseman,
focusing on the difficulties the play presents to its readers.
