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Death and the King's Horseman (Modern Plays)
Death and the King's Horseman - Modern Plays
Author: Wole Soyinka
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. "This play, by the winner of aNobel Prize for Literature, asks: "On the authority of what gods"...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780413333605
ISBN-10: 0413333604
Publication Date: 9/1/2003
Pages: 84
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Publisher: A&C Black
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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