Death and the king's horseman : authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, the play on stage, criticism / Wole Soyinka ; edited by Simon Gikandi.
| Author/creator | Soyinka, Wole author. |
| Other author | Gikandi, Simon editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | Second edition. |
| Publication | New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2023] |
| Description | xxix, 250 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Norton critical edition Norton critical edition. ^A538572 |
| Contents | The text of Death and the King's Horseman -- Backgrounds and contexts -- The Yoruba world / Henry John Drewal, John Pemberton III, and Rowland Abiodun -- The living dead : art and immortality among the Yoruba of Nigeria / Babatunde Lawal -- Oba Waja (the king is dead) / Duro Ladipo -- Theatre in African traditional cultures : survival patterns / Wole Soyinka -- This Wole Soyinka play showed the future of English / Biodun Jeyifo -- The play on stage -- Soyinka as director / Chuck Mike -- Soyinka and Death and the King's Horseman or how does our knowledge--of lack of knowledge--of Yoruba culture affect our imagination? / Kacke Götrick -- Wole Soyinka's 'Death and the King's Horseman,' Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester / Martin Rohmer -- Performing British power : colonial politics and performance space in Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman / Summer Pervez -- Criticism -- Being, the will, and the semantics of death / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- [Language in Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman] / David Richards -- Death and the King's Horseman : a poet's quarrel with his culture / Wole Ogundele -- When a man loves a woman : gender and national identity in Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman / Eileen Julien -- The (un)broken cycle in Death and the King's Horseman / Cheryl Sterling -- Before the law(s) : Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman and the passages of "bare life" / Eugene McNulty -- Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman in comparative frameworks / Ato Quayson -- Wole Soyinka : a chronology. |
| Abstract | "This Norton Critical Edition includes: The only student edition of Soyinka's play. An expansive introduction, headnotes, and explanatory footnotes by Simon Gikandi. Nine interior images. Background materials related to traditional Nigerian myth and culture, including two selections new to the Second Edition. A new section, "The Play on Stage," that considers Soyinka as director as well as the interpretative challenges of producing and performing Death and the King's Horseman. Seven critical essays-five of them new to the Second Edition-by Henry Louis Gates Jr., David Richards, Wole Ogundele, Eileen Julien, Cheryl Sterling, Eugene McNulty, and Ato Quayson. A chronology of Soyinka's life and work and a selected bibliography"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Genre/form | Drama. |
| Genre/form | Historical drama. |
| Genre/form | Historical drama. |
| Genre/form | Théâtre historique. |
| LCCN | 2022058203 |
| ISBN | 9780393888720 paperback |
| ISBN | 039388872X paperback |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PR9387.9 .S6 D4 2023 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |