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