num_pages: 89
description: Elesin Oba, the King's Horseman, has a single destiny. When the King dies, he must commit ritual suicide and lead his King's favorite horse and dog through the passage to the world of the ancestors. A British colonial officer, Pilkings, intervenes. "The action of the play is as inevitable and eloquent as in Antigone : a clash of values and cultures so fundamental that tragedy (ensues): a tragedy for each individual, each tribe."- Daily Telegraph "This play, by the winner of a Nobel Prize for Literature, "On the authority of what gods" the white aliens rupture a world. It puts exciting political theatre back on the agenda ... a masterpiece of 20th century drama."- Guardian Methuen Student Editions are expertly annotated texts of a wide range of plays from the modern and classic repertoires. As well as the complete text of the play itself, the volume contains a chronology of the playwright's life and work; an introduction giving the background to the play; a discussion of the various interpretations; an interview with Wole Soyinka ; and notes on individual words and phrases in the text.
language: English
title: Death and the King's Horseman: Methuen Student Edition
titlecomplete: Death and the King's Horseman: Methuen Student Edition
genres: Classics, School, Drama, Plays, Nobel Prize, Fiction, Africa, African Literature, Nigeria, Theatre
ratings_count: 4363
places: Oyo, Africa, Nigeria
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Premio letterario Giuseppe Acerbi
publisher: A&C Black