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Table of Contents
Introduction
Acknowledgments
The Text of Death and the King's Horseman
p. 1
Map of Yorubaland
p. 66
The Yoruba World
p. 67
Oba Waja (The King Is Dead)
p. 74
Theatre in African Traditional Cultures: Survival Patterns
p. 89
Wole Soyinka and the Myth of an African World
p. 103
Soyinka's New Play
p. 113
Death and the King's Horseman in the Classroom
p. 115
Wole Soyinka's 'Death and the King's Horseman,' Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
p. 121
Mediation in Soyinka: The Case of the King's Horseman
p. 141
Death and the King's Horseman
p. 151
Being, the Will, and the Semantics of Death
p. 155
Ideology and Tragedy
p. 164
Elesin Oba and the Critics
p. 172
Ritual Closure in Death and the King's Horseman
p. 177
Ritual and the Political Unconscious: The Case of Death and the King's Horseman
p. 187
Death and the King's Horseman and the Masks of Language
p. 196
Tragedy, Mimicry, and "The African World"
p. 207
Wole Soyinka: A Chronology
p. 223
Selected Bibliography
p. 227
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