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`The Lion and the Jewel alone is enough to establish Nigeria as the most fertile new source of English-speaking drama since Synge's discovery of the Western Isles.' The Times The ironic development and consequences of `progress' may be traced through both the themes and the tone of the works included in this second volume of Wole Soyinka's plays. The Lion and the Jewel shows an ineffectual assault on past tradition soundly defeated. In Kongi's Harvest, however, the pretensions of Kongi's regime are also fatal. The denouement points the way forward. The two Brother Jero plays pursue that way, the comic `propheteering' of the earlier play giving way to the sardonic reality of Jero's Metamorphosis. Madmen and Specialists, Soyinka's most pessimistic play, concerns the physical, mental, and moral destruction of modern civil war.
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This collection of plays could be said to encapsulate the essence of Soyinka's work. Soyinka melds the African traditions of his native Nigeria with the more familiar conventions of English plays to spectacular effect, incorporating elements of African dance and music into the plays. This is especially apparent in The Lion and the Jewel, a tale of African aspirations and European imperialism.
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I bought this book for my son who is at university,he was so pleased with it, it helped him with his assignment and hopefully it will help him throughout the year.
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