Collected Plays: Volume 2

by Wole Soyinka

Book Overview

'The Lion and the Jewel alone is enough to establish Nigeria as the most fertile new source of English-speaking drama since Synge's discovery of the Western Isles.' The Times The ironic development and consequences of 'progress' may be traced through both the themes and the tone of the works included in this second volume of Wole Soyinka's plays. The Lion and the Jewel shows an ineffectual assault on past tradition soundly defeated. In Kongi's Harvest,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192811649
• ISBN13: 9780192811646
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.8"