Wole Soyinka
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- Season of Anomy (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
- The Interpreters (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
- English-Language African Drama (Critical Survey of Drama, Second Revised Edition)
- French-Language African Drama (Critical Survey of Drama, Second Revised Edition)
- Aké (Masterplots II: Juvenile & Young Adult Biography Series)
- Isara (Magill Book Reviews)
- Aké (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
- The Man Died (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
- Death in the Dawn (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
- Ìsarà (Magill's Literary Annual 1990)
- Death and the King's Horseman (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- African Long Fiction (Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition)
- Madmen and Specialists (Masterplots II: Drama, Revised Edition)
- The Road (Masterplots II: Drama, Revised Edition)
- The Lion and the Jewel (Masterplots II: Drama, Revised Edition)
- A Dance of the Forests (Masterplots II: Drama, Revised Edition)
- Death and the King's Horseman (Masterplots II: Drama)
- The Open Sore of a Continent (Magill's Literary Annual 1997)
- Staging and Production (Critical Survey of Drama, Second Revised Edition)
- Dramatic Genres (Critical Survey of Drama, Second Revised Edition)
- Acting Styles (Critical Survey of Drama, Second Revised Edition)
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- Author: Wole Soyinka
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Wole Soyinka is not only a dramatist but also a poet, novelist, and critic. His poetry has appeared in several collections, including Idanre and Other Poems (1967), Poems from Prison (1969), A Shuttle in the Crypt (1972), and Mandela’s Earth and Other Poems (1988). The long poem Ogun Abibiman, connecting Yoruba mythology with African liberation, was first published in 1976. Soyinka has also written a few short stories as well as The Interpreters (1965) and Season of Anomy (1973), two novels. He...
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