In a work by this writer, Forest Head watches as Ogun and Eshuoro fight over the Half-Child, who is returned to the Dead Woman by Demoke. The Gathering of the Tribes opens that play, A Dance of the Forests. In the preface of another work, he emphasized its threnodic essence and cautioned against reducing the work to a culture clash. That work ends with Iyaloja's advice to "turn your mind only to the unborn". In that play, Amusa is scared by the sight of Simon Pilkings in an Egungun mask and late
In a work by this writer, Forest Head watches as Ogun and Eshuoro fight over the Half-Child, who is returned to the Dead Woman by Demoke. The Gathering of the Tribes opens that play, A Dance of the Forests. In the preface of another work, he emphasized its threnodic essence and cautioned against reducing the work to a culture clash. That work ends with Iyaloja's advice to "turn your mind only to the unborn". In that play, Amusa is scared by the sight of Simon Pilkings in an Egungun mask and later warns Pilkings about Elesin's attempt to commit ritual suicide. For 10 points, name this Nigerian playwright of The Lion and the Jewel and Death and the King's Horseman.
In a work by this writer, Forest Head watches as Ogun and Eshuoro fight over the Half-Child, who is returned to the Dead Woman by Demoke.
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