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

Name: Collected Plays: Volume 2
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780192811646
Price: 4250 KES
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ISBN: 9780192811646

by Wole Soyinka

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Collected Plays

ISBN-10 0192811649

ISBN-13 9780192811646

Publisher Oxford University Press

Imprint Oxford University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Dec 19th, 1974

Print length 282 Pages

Weight 306 grams

Dimensions 19.60 x 13.20 x 1.70 cms

Product Classification: Plays, playscripts Plays, playscripts, drama

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The ironic development and consequences of `progress' may be traced through both the themes and the tone of the works in this volume of Wole Soyinka's plays. Contains: The Lion and the Jewel, Kongi's Harvest, The Trials of Brother Jero, Jero's Metamorphosis, Madmen and Specialists.

`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 TimesThe 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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