Collected Plays: Volume 1 (Includes a Dance of the Forests/the Swamp Dwellers/the Strong Breed/the roaD/the Bacchae of Euripides)

Collected Plays: Volume 1 (Includes a Dance of the Forests/the Swamp Dwellers/the Strong Breed/the roaD/the Bacchae of Euripides)

Winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature, this Nigerian poet, playwright, and novelist writes of the rich cultural traditions as well as the hopes and frustrations of black Africa. This two-volume collection of his plays includes <em>A Dance of the Forests</em>, <em>The Swamp Dwellers</em>, <em>The Strong</em> <em>Breed</em>, <em>The Road</em>, and <em>The Bacchae of Euripides</em> in the first volume, and <em>The Lion and the Jewel</em>, <em>Kongi's Harvest</em>, <em>The Trials of Brother Jero</em>, <em>Jero's Metamorphosis</em>, and <em>Madmen and Specialists</em> in the second volume.<br>