About this title: In the traditional Nigerian village where this play is set, custom demands that the King's chief horseman accompany his ruler into the afterlife by committing suicide when the King dies. When the King in this play dies, his horseman is relieved when he is barred from his traditional role by the colonial powers that have taken control of his ...
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very good. Publishers Overstock. A Good copy with a Remainder Mark and wear to the covers and the extremities. Buy with confidence from an Independent Bookstore where the owners, a husband and wife team, have over 25 years of combined bookselling experience. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780393044294ISBN:0393044297
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Near very good, covers lift some, little edge wear, binding flexible some, clean pages. 77 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780393977615ISBN:0393977617
Description: Very Good. This book is in very good used condition The binding is tight. The 1st Table of Contents page had yellow highlighting but the rest appears clean. The cover has bumps and scuffs. There is no creasing on the spine. It has been corner and edge bumped. read more
"I didn't care for the beginning, which used poetic language.....I was somewhat lost through Act I. Thank goodness, this was the only place I struggled. All in all, it had a good message: don't judge that which you don't understand."
"Just saw a gorgeous, heartbreaking, memorable production in Ashland and came home and read it. Wonderful on the page, too. An indictment in poetry. Not a bleak tragedy, an exuberant, enraged tragedy."
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