Soyinka Plays - (Contemporary Dramatists) by Wole Soyinka & W Soyinka (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>This is a collection of four plays from the winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature. Wole Soyinka's work often features in GCSE and A level texts, as well as being studied at university level. She looks at African tradition by often using dance and music in her work.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>'Unquestionably Africa's most versatile writer and arguably one of her finest' - <i>New York Times Book Review <p/></i> <p/>A Play of Giants is a savage satire on some of the best-known dictators of our time (including Idi Amin); it brings together a group of dictatorial African leaders at bay in an embassy in New York attempting to make decisions together. Its theatrical predecessors include: Genet's <i>The Balcony</i> and Brecht's <i>Arturo Ui. <p/>From Zia with Love and A Scourge of Hyacinths</i>; When the Military decrees that a crime carrying a prison sentence now retroactively warrants summary execution, confusion and fear permeate a society where the brutality and injustice of military rule is parodied by life inside prison - based on events in Nigeria in the early 1980s Wole Soyinka's stage play <i>From Zia with Love</i> and radio play <i>A Scourge of Hyacinths</i>, were produced in the early 90s.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><P>...<P><BR>
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