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Author : Fred Agbeyegbe
Release : 1990
Genre : Drama
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Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The King Must Dance Naked by : Fred Agbeyegbe
Download or read book The King Must Dance Naked written by Fred Agbeyegbe. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Renault
Release : 2013-09-10
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 881/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The King Must Die by : Mary Renault
Download or read book The King Must Die written by Mary Renault. This book was released on 2013-09-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller: This retelling of the Greek myth of Theseus, king of Athens, is “one of the truly fine historical novels of modern times” (The New York Times). In myth, Theseus was the slayer of the child-devouring Minotaur in Crete. What the founder-hero might have been in real life is another question, brilliantly explored in The King Must Die. Drawing on modern scholarship and archaeological findings at Knossos, Mary Renault’s Theseus is an utterly lifelike figure—a king of immense charisma, whose boundless strivings flow from strength and weakness—but also one steered by implacable prophecy. The story follows Theseus’s adventures from Troizen to Eleusis, where the death in the book’s title is to take place, and from Athens to Crete, where he learns to jump bulls and is named king of the victims. Richly imbued with the spirit of its time, this is a page-turner as well as a daring act of imagination. Renault’s story of Theseus continues with the sequel The Bull from the Sea. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Mary Renault including rare images of the author.
Author : Fred Agbeyegbe
Release : 2012-07
Genre : Drama
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Book Rating : 962/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Woe Unto Death by : Fred Agbeyegbe
Download or read book Woe Unto Death written by Fred Agbeyegbe. This book was released on 2012-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Woe Unto Death, Fred Agbeyegbe, author of The King Must Dance Naked, dramatises the plight of a Queen whose husband, the King, has lain prostrate to an unknown illness for years, neither dying nor healing. The heroine Queen emerges in her hour of glory determined to keep her husband alive. She seeks Death at a graveyard to terminate Death's own life before Death can lay his icy hands on the King. The author deploys the illness of the King, with his many wives and children waiting for his survival or demise, to demonstrate how in an age of greed, haste and disrespect, one subject can be the object of many conflicting desires. Woe Unto Death journeys beyond the mundane into the metaphysical zones of the relationship between life and death; between death, old age, illness and accident; and the function of each in the complex life of ignorant humans at the mercy of unknown ravages of nature, dependent only on the meaningless suppositions of their oracle and fumbling priests. About the Author: Fred Agbeyegbe is an admiralty legal practitioner in Lagos, Nigeria.He is also Nigeria's first playwright, the subject of a Theatre Arts Professor's Inaugural Lecture, and the first Nigerian playwright to be honored by peers and theatre practitioners as The Grand Living Legend of Nigerian Theatre. He wrote this book as one of those escapades of a mind that ponders the complex relationship between God's desires for man and God's agents for achieving his purposes, including the actual purpose of death. Publisher's Website:: http: //sbpra.com/FredAgbeyeg
Author : Dele Layiwola
Release : 2013-11-05
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 339/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis African Theatre in Performance by : Dele Layiwola
Download or read book African Theatre in Performance written by Dele Layiwola. This book was released on 2013-11-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lively and varied tribute to Martin Banham, Layiwola has assembled critical commentaries and two plays which focus primarily on Nigerian theatre - both traditional and contemporary. Dele Layiwola, Dapo Adelugba and Sonny Oti trace the beginnings of the School of Drama in 1960, at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, where Martin Banham played a key and influential role in the growth of thriving Nigerian theatre repetoire and simulaneously encouraging the creation of a new theatre based on traditional Nigerian theatre forms. This comparative approach is taken up in Dele Layiwola's study of ritual and drama in the context of various traditions worldwide, while Oyin Ogunba presents a lucid picture of the complex use of theatre space in Yoruba ritual dramadar drama. Harsh everyday realitites, both physical and political, are graphically demonstrated by Robert McClaren (Zimbabwe) and Oga Steve Abah (Nigeria) who both show surprising and alarming links between extreme actual experiences and theatre creation and performance. The texts of the two plays - When Criminals Turn Judges by Ola Rotimi, The Hand that Feeds the King by Wale Ogunyemi, are followed by Austin O. Asagba's study of oral tradition and text in plays by Osofisan and Agbeyegbe, and Frances Harding's study on power, language, and imagery in Wole Soyinka's plays.
Author : Wole Ogundele
Release : 2003
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis IBA by : Wole Ogundele
Download or read book IBA written by Wole Ogundele. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Festschrift, containing twenty-two essays by African scholars of African literature, is published as a tribute to Oyin Gunba, a renowned scholar of African literature, specifically oral literature and drama. The contributors include Femi Osofisan, Ahmed Yerima, Ayo Kehinde and Niyi Osundare. Some subjects broached are the development of a cultural economy in Africa; the early plays of Osofisan; language and identity in African drama; cross-cultural engagement in Remi Raji's travel poetry; classifying Yoruba oral poetry; and Yoruba cultural nationalism.
