Death and the King's Horseman

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

• The only student edition of Soyinka's play.
• An expansive introduction, headnotes, and explanatory footnotes by Simon Gikandi.
• Nine interior images.
• Background materials related to traditional Nigerian myth and culture, including two selections new to the Second Edition.
• A new section, "The Play on Stage," that considers Soyinka as director as well as the interpretative challenges of producing and performing Death and the King's Horseman.
• Seven critical essays--five of them new to the Second Edition--by Henry Louis Gates Jr., David Richards, Wole Ogundele, Eileen Julien, Cheryl Sterling, Eugene McNulty, and Ato Quayson.
• A chronology of Soyinka's life and work and a selected bibliography.