Titlebook: Wole Soyinka; James Gibbs Textbook 1986Latest edition Macmillan Publishers Limited 1986 dramatist.fiction.novel.Samuel Beckett.Seán O’Case

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The Leeds Plays,, the two very different plays, . and ., which opened doors for him in London and established his reputation in Nigeria. While . bears the marks of its author’s academic background and displays only a few features of his characteristic style, . is assured and remarkable. It has been brought to life

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The Independence Plays,le clearly part of the same sensibility which had created . and ., these plays reflected developments in Nigerian affairs and the remoteness of the possibility for change in that country. The indications can be seen in suspicions concerning the quality of the leaders who were settling into positions

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A Play of Giants,Using ., the Union of Writers of African Peoples and the Nigerian press, he waged a fierce campaign against the bloody tyranny in Uganda from the mid-seventies. In May 1979, he published a particularly densely textured and carefully structured celebration of the tyrant’s downfall, entitled ‘Happy Ri

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Brief Life,nal reputation has grown since the early 1960s, boosted by the publication of novels, poetry and autobiography as well as by productions of his plays and by his presence in Europe and America as a lecturer, teacher and director, sometimes during extended periods of self-exile.

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Sources and Influences,they conform to Yoruba aesthetic principles, are permissible, indeed they are encouraged. The pattern of the festival, the concern with communal purification and the eclecticism of the celebration were important for the growing playwright and they provide an example of the kind of inspiration Soyinka found in his African background.

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Plays from the Sixties,work and one sketch, ., will be considered with the major ‘plays from the sixties’, . and .. These plays grew out of a deepening awareness of the idioms of Yoruba festivals and an intense political commitment; they exhibit a considerably more disciplined approach to playwriting than had been evidenced in ..