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"Unquestionably Africa's most versatile writer and arguably one of her finest" (New York Times Book Review) A Play of Giants is a savage satire on some of the best-known dictators of our time (including Idi Amin); it brings together a group of dictatorial African leaders at bay in an embassy in New York attempting to make decisions together. Its theatrical predecessors include: Genet's The Balcony and Brecht's Arturo Ui. From Zia with Love and A Scourge of Hyacinths; When the Military decrees that a crime carrying a prison sentence now retroactively warrants summary execution, confusion and fear permeate a society where the brutality and injustice of military rule is parodied by life inside prison - based on events in Nigeria in the early 1980s Wole Soyinka's stage play From Zia with Love and radio play A Scourge of Hyacinths, were produced in the early 90s.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Plays, playscripts

• Full title: Soyinka Plays: 2
• Subtitle: A Play of Giants; From Zia with Love; A Scourge of Hyacinths; The Beatification of Area Boy
• Author: Wole Soyinka
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368
• EAN: 9780413732606
• ISBN: 0413732606
• ID: 04606079
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 360 g
• Dimensions: 196 × 130 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. February 1999

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