If you would like to comment about this lecture, please register here. Soyinkas The Bacchae of Euripides is a brilliant new tragedy among the contemporary plays. Register to tell a friend about this lecture. Lecznar explores the influence of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche on this first production of Soyinka's play, the National's commissioning of Soyinka, and charts the interplay between African and European sources Wole Soyinka describes what he believes to be Euripides confessional change in worldview. Soyinka's Bacchae at the National TheatreĪ lecture on the 1971 National Theatre production of Euripides' The Bacchae adapted by Wole Soyinka and directed by Roland Joffe.Īdam Lecznar, a doctoral student in Classics at University College London, discusses Wole Soyinka's The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite (1973) and explores how Soyinka's drama develops and questions Euripides' original ancient Greek tragedy. Agave brings Pentheus head to her father.
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