A comic interlude in this work occurs when Sergeant Amusa is mocked as a eunuch, and two characters in this work who abandon their culture are insulted as "eater[s] of leftovers."  Iyaloja's son is set to marry the Bride in this work, but the protagonist insists on ravishing her instead and impregnates her, and a masquerade ball in this work features the profane use of death masks.  The protagonist's son is a medical student named Olunde, and Simon Pilkings refuses to let the father whisper ceremonial rites in his son's ear after his suicide, breaking the cosmic order, and causing the protagonist to strangle himself with his chains.  FTP, name this play in which the title character Elesin Oba is arrested before he can commit Yoruban ritual 
A comic interlude in this work occurs when Sergeant Amusa is mocked as a eunuch, and two characters in this work who abandon their culture are insulted as "eater[s] of leftovers."  Iyaloja's son is set to marry the Bride in this work, but the protagonist insists on ravishing her instead and impregnates her, and a masquerade ball in this work features the profane use of death masks.  The protagonist's son is a medical student named Olunde, and Simon Pilkings refuses to let the father whisper ceremonial rites in his son's ear after his suicide, breaking the cosmic order, and causing the protagonist to strangle himself with his chains.  FTP, name this play in which the title character Elesin Oba is arrested before he can commit Yoruban ritual suicide to tend the alafin's animals, a work of Wole Soyinka.
A comic interlude in this work occurs when Sergeant Amusa is mocked as a eunuch, and two characters in this work who abandon their culture are insulted as "eater[s] of leftovers."  
{Death and the King’s Horseman} (2) [AH]