Wole Soyinka (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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Wole Soyinka is best known as a dramatist. He has written more than twenty plays in various modes, including The Swamp Dwellers (1958), The Lion and the Jewel (1959), A Dance of the Forests (1960), Madmen and Specialists (1970, revised 1971), and Death and the King’s Horseman (1975). He is also a director and filmmaker. He has published several collections of poetry, including Idanre and Other Poems (1967), A Shuttle in the Crypt (1972), and Mandela’s Earth and Other Poems (1988), and the long poem...

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