Death & The Kings Horseman

Death & The Kings HorsemanCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780413333605 Format: Trade paperback (UK) Year: 2006 Publisher: Bloomsbury Description: ''This play, by the winner of a Nobel Prize for Literature, asks 'On the authority of what gods' the white aliens rupture the world. It puts exciting political theatre back on the agenda. . . a masterpiece of 20th century drama' (Guardian) Elesin Oba, the King's Horseman, has a single destiny. When the King dies, he must commit ritual

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780413333605
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury


Description:
''This play, by the winner of a Nobel Prize for Literature, asks- 'On the authority of what gods' the white aliens rupture the world. It puts exciting political theatre back on the agenda. . . a masterpiece of 20th century drama' (Guardian)

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. '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)''