TROPES OF TRANSITION IN WOLE SOYINKA'S DEATH AND THE KING'S HORSEMAN
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This paper examines the role of non-verbal COI/1111Uilication as an index of the pace and progression
of plot in African ritual drama, using Wale Soyinka 's Death and the King's Horseman as a
representative model. The purpose is to attempt an analysis of the resource of traditional dramatic
11/otifs, especially dance, as tropes of movement and meaning in African ritual drama. The play has
received distinguished critical attention is Soyinka 's major, and perhaps, unique contribution to
111odern ritual drama; this paper examines tropes of transition in Death and the King's Horseman,
e::,pecially in the context of the Yoruba social semiotic of dance.
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