Introduction

Acknowledgements

The Text of Death and the King’s Horseman:

Backgrounds and Contexts

Map of Yorubaland
Henry John Drewel, John Pemberton III, and Rowland Abiodun * The Yoruba World
Duro Lapido * Oba Waja
Wole Soyinka * Theatre in African Traditional Cultures: Survival Patterns
Anthony Appiah * [Wole Soyinka and the Myth of an African World]
Gerald Moore * Soyinka’s New Play
Tanure Ojaide * [Death and the King’s Horseman in the Classroom]
Martin Rohmer * Wole Soyinka’s "Death and the King’s Horseman," Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester

Criticism
D.S. Izevbaye * Mediation in Soyinka: The Case of the King’s Horseman
Eldred Durosimi Jones * Death and the King’s Horseman
Henry Louis Gates * Being, the Will, and the Semantics of Death
Biodun Jeyifo * [Ideology and Tragedy]
Wole Soyinka * [Elesin Oba and the Critics]
Joan Hepburn * [Ritual Closure in Death and the King’s Horseman]
Adebayo Williams * Ritual and the Political Unconscious: The Case of Death and the King’s Horseman
David Richards * [Death and the King’s Horseman and the Masks of Language]
Olankule George * [Tragedy, Mimicry, and The African World]

Selected Bibliography