Death and the king's horseman

By:

Soyinka, Wole

Publication details: Methuen Drama India, 2017. New Delhi:Description: liii, 92p.; pbk; 20cmISBN:

9789386349279

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

812.54 SOY

Summary: "This play, by the winner of a Nobel Prize for Literature, asks: 'On the authority of what gods' the white aliens rupture the world. It puts exciting political theatre back on the agenda. . . a masterpiece of 20th century drama" Guardian 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. https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/death-and-the-kings-horseman-9780413695505/

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"This play, by the winner of a Nobel Prize for Literature, asks: 'On the authority of what gods' the white aliens rupture the world. It puts exciting political theatre back on the agenda. . . a masterpiece of 20th century drama" Guardian

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.

https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/death-and-the-kings-horseman-9780413695505/

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