The Trials of Brother Jero

The Trials of Brother Jero PDF Author: Wole Soyinka
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822210900
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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THE STORIES: THE TRIALS OF BROTHER JERO. As Michael Smith describes: Brother Jero is a self-styled 'prophet,' an evangelical con man who ministers to the gullible and struts with self-importance over their dependence on him. The play follows him t

The Trials of Brother Jero

The Trials of Brother Jero PDF Author: Wole Soyinka
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822210900
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Book Description
THE STORIES: THE TRIALS OF BROTHER JERO. As Michael Smith describes: Brother Jero is a self-styled 'prophet,' an evangelical con man who ministers to the gullible and struts with self-importance over their dependence on him. The play follows him t

The Jero Plays

The Jero Plays PDF Author: Wole Soyinka
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Three Short Plays

Three Short Plays PDF Author: Wole Soyinka
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Nigerian
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Swamp dwellers: The play focuses on the struggle between the old and the new ways of life in Africa. It also focuses on the struggle between human beings and unfavorable sources of nature.

Madmen and Specialists

Madmen and Specialists PDF Author: Wole Soyinka
Publisher: Hill and Wang
ISBN: 9780809012268
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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An African playwright reveals his thoughts on man's betrayal of his vocation for power in this drama

Collected Plays

Collected Plays PDF Author: Wole Soyinka
Publisher: London ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780192811646
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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`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.

The Lion and the Jewel

The Lion and the Jewel PDF Author: Wole Soyinka
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789783535916
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Idanre & Other Poems

Idanre & Other Poems PDF Author: Wole Soyinka
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Death and the King's Horseman

Death and the King's Horseman PDF Author: Wole Soyinka
Publisher: Methuen Drama
ISBN: 9781474260763
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Elesin Oba, the King's Horseman, has a single destiny. When the King dies, he must commit ritual suicide and lead his King's favourite horse and dog through the passage to the world of the ancestors. A British Colonial Officer, Pilkings, intervenes to prevent the death and arrests Elesin. The play is a set text for NEAB GCSE, NEAB A Level and NEAB A/S Level. 'A masterpiece of 20th century drama' - Guardian "A transfixing work of modern world drama" (Independent); "clearly a masterpiece. . . he achieves the full impact of Greek tragedy" (Irving Wardle, Independent on Sunday); "the action of the play is as inevitable and eloquent as in Antigone: a clash of values and cultures so fundamental that tragedy issues: a tragedy for each individual, each tribe" (Michael Schmidt, Daily Telegraph)

The Beatification of Area Boy

The Beatification of Area Boy PDF Author: Wole Soyinka
Publisher: Methuen Publishing
ISBN: 9780413686800
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Set in Nigeria, amid the scenes of everyday racketeering and general disquiet, the police try to clear the area of undesirables, as a traditional wedding between two illustrious and ambitious families is about to take place. This play is by Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka.

Prison Graduates

Prison Graduates PDF Author: Mawugbe, Efo Kodjo
Publisher: Afram Publications (Ghana)
ISBN: 9964705387
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 97

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The Prison Graduates was the winning play in the English as a 2nd Language category of theBBC World Service/British Council International Radio Playwriting Competition2009. The play is a political satire set in Ghana, and talks about serious issues on a light note. It highlights situations in Ghana and Africa as a whole; these include young and energetic people paying huge sums of money to go abroad to seek greener pastures, and the hospitals where ‘cash and carry’ method is practiced. The situation where churches are corrupt and the congregation is naïve... Efo makes us laugh at our folly, whilst realising that we are all part of the challenges our countries face, and can contribute to the solutions.