Wole Soyinka

Collected Plays: Volume 1

A Dance of the Forests; The Swamp Dwellers; The Strong Breed; The Road; The Bacchae of Euripides

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Wole Soyinka won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. In this volume the plays are all concerned with the spiritual and the social; with belief and ritual as integrating forces for social cohesion. Whether considering the corruption of urban life or the power of superstition.

Produktdetails

• Collected Plays
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 1973
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 130mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 232g
• ISBN-13: 9780192811363
• ISBN-10: 0192811363
• Artikelnr.: 21323756

Autorenporträt

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.