Death and the King's Horseman

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'' - "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)>

Product details

• Authors: Wole Soyinka, Soyinka Wole
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.01.2016
• EAN: 9781474260763
• ISBN: 978-1-4742-6076-3
• No. of pages: 96
• Series: Modern Classics; Modern Classics; Student Editions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; DRAMA / General, DRAMA / African, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Plays, Playscripts, Literary studies: plays and playwrights