Collected Plays: Volume 1 (V. 1: A Galaxy Book) (Includes a Dance of the Forests/the Swamp Dwellers/the Strong Breed/the roaD/the Bacchae of Euripides, Band 1) - Softcover

Soyinka, Wole

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192811363 ISBN 13: 9780192811363

Verlag: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2007

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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.

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Wole Soyinka is a celebrated Nigerian writer and winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature. As well as plays he has written two novels, two volumes of poetry, and The Man Died, notes of his prison experience. His other plays include The Lion and the Jewel, Kongi's Harvest, The Trails of Brother Jero, Jero's Metamorphosis, and Madmen and Specialists. He has a new book, The Open Sore of a Continent, published in June 1996.

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'One of the finest poetic playwrights who have ever written in English' - Martin Esslin.

'A writer of genius' - Irish Times.

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• Verlag: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0192811363
• ISBN 13: 9780192811363
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
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