A peer reviewed article by Tertsea Ikyoive and Ayub Sheik, confirmed at its Taylor and Francis abstract page under DOI 10.1080/10137548.2017.1359108. Its strength is a close reading of the play's ritual suicides against documented Yoruba belief rather than against a purely colonial reading of the text.
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Reliability Tier1
Reliability tier 1: a peer-reviewed article in the South African Theatre Journal, published by Routledge and Taylor and Francis, the strongest available evidentiary form for a claim about a play's cultural and religious politics. NotesChecked at its abstract page (South African Theatre Journal, Vol. 30, Nos. 1-3, 2017, pp. 55 to 74). The authors argue that the suicides in the play are best understood within Yoruba belief and ritual tradition as a necessary and pragmatic response to disrupted obligation, not primarily an escape from shame.
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PublisherSouth African Theatre Journal (Routledge/Taylor and Francis)
URLhttps://doi.org/10.1080/10137548.2017.1359108
Source Typepeer-reviewed article
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This source names Francis directly: "Sheik, confirmed at its Taylor and Francis abstract page under DOI 10.1080/10137548.2017.1359108."
Source Ikyoive and Sheik, "Ritual, Cultural Politics and the Suicides in Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman" (2017)
Claims Backed By This Source (10 claims)
This source backs 10 claims across the atlas. As facts: 8 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 7 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Literary Works, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Articles, 1 claims: 1 well-attested.
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