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Madmen and Specialists - Paperback

by Wole Soyinka
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Availability:In StockContributor:Wole SoyinkaSeries:Spotlight DramabookPublish date:1987-09-01Pages:96
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plISBN-13:9780809012268ISBN-10:080901226XUPC:9780809012268Book Category:DramaBook Subcategory:AfricanSize:8.04 x 5.09 x 0.32 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCVZGRD2F5
Written in 1971, Madmen and Specialists is one of Soyinka's most excoriating portrayals of abusers and abused in the new Nigeria ushered in by Biafra and the civil war of 1967-70. Set in the "surgery" of a doctor, the play is populated by mendicants and the "insane," all fodder for "experimentation" by a shape-shifting doctor whose experiments may be more sinister than they at first appear.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plISBN-13:9780809012268ISBN-10:080901226XUPC:9780809012268Book Category:DramaBook Subcategory:AfricanSize:8.04 x 5.09 x 0.32 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCVZGRD2F5

Wole Soyinka--playwright, novelist, poet and polemical essayist--was born in Nigeria in 1934. Educated there and at Leeds University, he worked in the British theatre before returning to West Africa in 1960. In 1986 he became the first African writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. He is currently Woodruff Professor of the Arts, Emory University, Atlanta.


Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl

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