Death and the King’s Horseman

by

Wole Soyinka

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Death and the King’s Horseman Symbols

European Music

In his stage notes, Soyinka describes the European music (like a tango or waltz) that plays at points throughout the production as being weak and of poor quality. With this, the play suggests that the…

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Chains

Though Soyinka insists in his introduction that Death and the King's Horseman isn't about colonialism, per se, the way that chains function throughout the play make it clear that Oyo and Nigeria as a whole…

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