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Anderson,Federico Garcia LorcaEugene Benson,J.M.Synge  \nRenate Benson,German Expressionist DramaNormand Berlin,Eugene O'NeillMichael Billington,Alan AyckbournJohn Bull,New British Political DramatistsDenis Calandra,New German DramatistsNeil Carson,Arthur MillerMaurice Charney,Joe Orton  \nRuby Cohn,New American Dramatists,1960-1980Bernard F Dukore,American Dramatists,1918-1945Bernard F Dukore,Harold PinterArthur Ganz,George Bernard ShawJames Gibbs,Wole SoyinkaFrances Gray,John ArdenJulian Hilton,Georg BüchnerDavid L Hirst,Edward BondHelene Keyssar,Feminist Theatre  \nBettina L Knapp,French Theatre 1918-1939Charles Lyons,Samuel Beckett  \nJan McDonald,The New Drama 1900-1914Susan Bassnett-McGuire,Luigi PirandelloMargery Morgan,August Strindberg  \nLeonard C.Pronko,Eugene Labiche and Georges FeydeauJeanette L Savona,Jean Genet  \nClaude Schumacher,Alfred Jarry and Guillaume ApollinaireLaurence Senelick,Anton Chekhov  \nTheodore Shank,American Alternative TheatreJames Simmons,Sean O'CaseyDavid Thomas,Henrik IbsenDennis Walder,Athol FugardThomas Whitaker,Tom Stoppard  \nNick Worrall,Nikolai Gogol and Ivan TurgenevKatharine Worth,Oscar Wilde  \n# MACMILLAN MODERN DRAMATISTS\n\nWOLDSOYINKA  \nJames Gibbs  \nCJames Gibbs 1986  \nAll rights reserved.No reproduction,copy or transmission of thispublication may be made without written permission.  \nNo paragraph of this publication may be reproduced,copied ortransmitted save with written permission or in acordance with theprovisions of the Copyright Act 1956(as amended).  \nAny person who does any unauthorised act in relation to thispublication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claimsfor damages.  \nFirst published 1986  \nPublished by Higher and Further Education DivisionMACMILLAN PUBLISHERS LTD  \nHoundmills,Basingstoke,Hampshire RG212XSand London  \nCompanies and representativesthroughout the world  \nTypeset by Type Generation Ltd,London EC1  \nGibbs,James  \nWole Soyinka.-(Macmillan modern dramatists)  \n1.Soyinka,Wole -Criticism and interpretation  \nI.Title822PR9387.9.S6Z/  \nISBN 978-0-333-30528-7  \nISBN 978-1-349-18209-1(eBook)  \nDOI 10.1007/978-1-349-18209-1  \nContents  \nAcknowledgementsA Note on AccentsList of PlatesEditors'Preface1 Brief Life  \nviix1  \n2 Sources and Influences183 The Leeds Plays394 The Independence Plays545 Plays of the Sixties716 APost-War Play997 Plays of Exile1078 Plays for Nigeria of theSeventies and Eighties1289 APlay of Giants150References162Bibliography166Index171  \n# Acknowledgements\n\nThe author wishes to thank his family for support,adviceand encouragement;his students and colleagues in Ghana,Malawi and Nigeria for ideas and information,and,finally,Wole Soyinka for creating such remarkable theatre and forpermission to quote from the unpublished rehearsal scriptof Opera Wonyosi quoted on page 131.  \n# A note on accents\n\nYoruba words and names usually appear in Wole Soyinka'sbooks without apostrophes,subscripts or superscripts.Ihave 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