Death and the King's Horseman: A Play

Colonial District Officer Simon Pilkings and his protege, Olunde, whose medical training in England Pilkings arranged, clash over Pilkings' determination to interfere with Olunde's father's ritual suicide, traditionally required of a dead king's chief horseman.

• | Author: Wole Soyinka
• | Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• | Publication Date: April 17, 2002
• | Number of Pages: 77 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0393322998
• | ISBN-13: 9780393322996