Collected Plays 2: The Lion and the Jewel; Kongi's Harvest; The Trials of Brother Jero; Jero's Metamorphosis; Madmen and Specialists: 0392 - Softcover

Soyinka, Wole

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192811649 ISBN 13: 9780192811646

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1975

Synopsis

'"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", however, the pretensions of Kongi's regime are also fatal. The denouement points the way forward. "The Two Brother Jero" plays pursue that way, the comic 'propheteering' of the earlier play giving way to the sardonic reality of "Jero's Metamorphosis". "Madmen and Specialists", Soyinka's most pessimistic play, concerns the physical, mental, and moral destruction of modern civil war.

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Review:

"Thanks for publishing these plays!"--Louis J. Hinkel, Jr., Emory Univ.
"Thanks for publishing these plays!"--Louis J. Hinkel, Jr., Emory Univ.
"Thanks for publishing these plays!"--Louis J. Hinkel, Jr., Emory Univ.

About the Author:

Wole Soyinka is a celebrated Nigerian writer and winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature. As well as plays he has written two novels, two volumes of poetry, and The Man Died, notes of his prison experience. His other plays include The Lion and the Jewel, Kongi's Harvest, The Trails of Brother Jero, Jero's Metamorphosis, and Madmen and Specialists. He has a new book, The Open Sore of a Continent, published in in June 1996.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0192811649
• ISBN 13: 9780192811646
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 282