Eguria

  AFRICAN DRAMA The Lion and the Jewel -Wole Soyinka     Brief Background of the Playwright                Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka is a playwright, poet, and essayist born in Isara, Ijebu, Ogun State, Nigeria in 1934.  He attended Government College, Ibadan for his secondary education, and the University of Ibadan and Leeds for his doctorate degree programs. After studying in Nigeria and the UK, he worked with the Royal Court Theatre in London.  His plays were produced and acted in both countries.              Soyinka won Nobel Prize for literature in 1986 as the first African to win the prestigious award.  He had also lectured comparative literature at Obafemi Awolowo University, Cornell University, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, etc, Some of his other books include  The Trials of Brother Jero (1960), A Dance...

  A Midsummer Night’s Dream                            -WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE               DRAMATIC PERSONAE             Theseus-Duke of Athens             Hippolyta – Duk’s wife to be             Egeus-Father to Hermia             Lysander is in love with Hermia.             Demetrius             Hermia-in love with Lysander             Helena-in love with Demetrius      ...