Death And The Kings Horseman

Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher : Methuen Drama
ISBN 13 : 9781474260763
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death and the King's Horseman written by Wole Soyinka and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 to prevent the death and arrests Elesin. The play is a set text for NEAB GCSE, NEAB A Level and NEAB A/S Level. 'A masterpiece of 20th century drama' - Guardian "A transfixing work of modern world drama" (Independent); "clearly a masterpiece. . . he achieves the full impact of Greek tragedy" (Irving Wardle, Independent on Sunday); "the action of the play is as inevitable and eloquent as in Antigone: a clash of values and cultures so fundamental that tragedy issues: a tragedy for each individual, each tribe" (Michael Schmidt, Daily Telegraph)

Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393322996
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death and the King's Horseman written by Wole Soyinka and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This Norton Critical Edition of Death and the King's Horseman is the only student edition available in the United States. Based on events that took place in 1946 in the ancient Yoruban city of Oyo, Soyinka's acclaimed and powerful play addresses classic issues of cultural conflict, tragic decision-making, and the psychological mindsets of individuals and groups. The text of the play is accompanied by an introduction and explanatory annotations for the many allusions to traditional Nigerian myth and culture." "Included are a map of Yorubaland, discussions of Yoruban religious beliefs and cultural traditions. Soyinka on the various forms that theater has taken in African culture in order to survive, and Anthony Appiah on Soyinka's struggle with the problem of African identity in the creation of Death and the King's Horseman. Commentary on the play as both a theatrical production and a classroom text is provided."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780606342322
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death And the King's Horseman written by Wole Soyinka and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2002-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300189028
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Of Africa written by Wole Soyinka and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A member of the unique generation of African writers and intellectuals who came of age in the last days of colonialism, Wole Soyinka has witnessed the promise of independence and lived through postcolonial failure. He deeply comprehends the pressing problems of Africa, and, an irrepressible essayist and a staunch critic of the oppressive boot, he unhesitatingly speaks out.In this magnificent new work, Soyinka offers a wide-ranging inquiry into Africa's culture, religion, history, imagination, and identity. He seeks to understand how the continent's history is entwined with the histories of others, while exploring Africa's truest assets: "its humanity, the quality and valuation of its own existence, and modes of managing its environment—both physical and intangible (which includes the spiritual)."Fully grasping the extent of Africa's most challenging issues, Soyinka nevertheless refuses defeatism. With eloquence he analyzes problems ranging from the meaning of the past to the threat of theocracy. He asks hard questions about racial attitudes, inter-ethnic and religious violence, the viability of nations whose boundaries were laid out by outsiders, African identity on the continent and among displaced Africans, and more. Soyinka's exploration of Africa relocates the continent in the reader's imagination and maps a course toward an African future of peace and affirmation.

Author : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616202424
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Purple Hibiscus written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the most vital and original novelists of her generation.” —Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker From the bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They live in a beautiful house, with a caring family, and attend an exclusive missionary school. They're completely shielded from the troubles of the world. Yet, as Kambili reveals in her tender-voiced account, things are less perfect than they appear. Although her Papa is generous and well respected, he is fanatically religious and tyrannical at home—a home that is silent and suffocating. As the country begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili and Jaja are sent to their aunt, a university professor outside the city, where they discover a life beyond the confines of their father’s authority. Books cram the shelves, curry and nutmeg permeate the air, and their cousins’ laughter rings throughout the house. When they return home, tensions within the family escalate, and Kambili must find the strength to keep her loved ones together. Purple Hibiscus is an exquisite novel about the emotional turmoil of adolescence, the powerful bonds of family, and the bright promise of freedom.

Author : Salman Rushdie
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804152330
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book East, West written by Salman Rushdie and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-01-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Satanic Verses comes nine stories that reveal the oceanic distances and the unexpected intimacies between East and West. Daring, extravagant, comical and humane, this book renews Rushdie's stature as a storyteller who can enthrall and instruct us with the same sentence.

Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393977615
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death and the King's Horseman written by Wole Soyinka and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Norton Critical Edition of Death and the King's Horseman is the only student edition available in the United States. Based on events that took place in 1946 in the ancient Yoruban city of Oyo, Soyinka's acclaimed and powerful play addresses classic issues of cultural conflict, tragic decision-making, and the psychological mindsets of individuals and groups. The text of the play is accompanied by an introduction and explanatory annotations for the many allusions to traditional Nigerian myth and culture.

Author : J. Ellen Gainor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780393283471
Total Pages : 1792 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Norton Anthology of Drama written by J. Ellen Gainor and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 1792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive and up-to-date, now with more instructor resources

Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521398343
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myth, Literature and the African World written by Wole Soyinka and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-09-13 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wole Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, here analyses the interconnecting worlds of myth, ritual and literature in Africa.

Author : Bernard Cornwell
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060787120
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pale Horseman written by Bernard Cornwell and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uhtred, a dispossessed English nobleman, finds his life changed by Iseult, a powerful sorceress, as he rediscovers the deep loyalty he feels for his native country and joins King Alfred to defend themselves against the Vikings.