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DEATH AND THE KING?S HORSEMAN IBD

BLOOMSBURY METHUEN DRAMA
01 / 2016
9781474260763
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Sinopsis

Elesin Oba, the King?s Horseman, has a single destiny. When the King dies, he must commit ritual suicide and lead his King?s favourite horse and dog through the passage to the world of the ancestors. A British Colonial Officer, Pilkings, intervenes to prevent the death and arrests Elesin. The play is a set text for NEAB GCSE, NEAB A Level and NEAB A/S Level. ?A masterpiece of 20th century drama? - Guardian A transfixing work of modern world drama (Independent), clearly a masterpiece. . . he achieves the full impact of Greek tragedy (Irving Wardle, Independent on Sunday), the action of the play is as inevitable and eloquent as in Antigone: a clash of values and cultures so fundamental that tragedy issues: a tragedy for each individual, each tribe (Michael Schmidt, Daily Telegraph)

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