The crowd sourced encyclopedia's article on the play, read directly for this entry. Its strength is a well referenced production and content record: the historical incident behind the play, its 1975 premiere, plot and reception. Its limit is that it is not independently peer reviewed, so it is cited here for corroborated production and content detail rather than for scholarly critical judgment, which the Ikyoive and Sheik article supplies instead.
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Reliability Tier3
Reliability tier 3: a Wikipedia entry, written and revised by unnamed volunteer editors, suited to an uncontested, easily checked point about a play rather than a disputed claim. NotesRead directly. Cited for the real colonial era incident behind the play, in which a Yoruba king's horseman was prevented from ritual suicide by colonial authorities; the play's own 1975 writing and its premiere that year at the University of Ife; its plot, Elesin Oba's stopped death, the district officer Simon Pilkings, and Elesin's son Olunde completing the ritual suicide instead; and its production history, including Soyinka's own 1976 Chicago staging, a 1987 Lincoln Center run, a 2009 Royal National Theatre production directed by Rufus Norris, and a Netflix film adaptation that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2022.
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PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_and_the_King%27s_Horseman
Source Typereference
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- Literary Works, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.
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