One of this author's title characters manages the Carpenter's Brigade and has servants that sing of hemlock in its opening se
One of this author's title characters manages the Carpenter's Brigade and has servants that sing of hemlock in its opening section. That play focuses on a dictator who demands a tribute of yams. This man fused the gods Apollo and Dionysus in a play that features a "liberation of the grape," a reinterpreting of Euripides' Bacchae. This author of Kongi's Harvest wrote a play which begins with the Praise Singer singing about the cock and the "Not-I bird," and that play focuses on an act that Jane and Simon Pilkings abhor, a ritual suicide that Elesin must undergo. During the "Night" portion of another of this author's plays, Sidi leaves Lakunle to marry the Bale. For 10 points, name this author of The Lion and the Jewel and Death and the King's Horseman, a playwright from Nigeria.
One of this author's title characters manages the Carpenter's Brigade and has servants that sing of hemlock in its opening section.
Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka