Death and the King's Horseman — La Mort et l'Écuyer du roi, tragédie et jeu rituel

Authors : Wole Soyinka

Genres : théâtre

Original language : anglais

Editions

  • Thomas Nelson & Sons / Oxford, 1975 en
  • Hatier / Présence Africaine, 1986 fr

The masterpiece of Soyinka, compelled by his Nobel Prize: in Oyo in 1946, the rider of the deceased king must commit suicide to accompany his master; British colonialists prevent him from doing so — an ontological catastrophe in the form of an anticolonial tragedy.

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