Collected Plays: Volume 1 - A Dance of the Forests; The Swamp Dwellers; The Strong Breed; The Road; The Bacchae of Euripides

Wole Soyinka won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. In this volume the plays are all concerned with the spiritual and the social; with belief and ritual as integrating forces for social cohesion. Whether considering the corruption of urban life or the power of superstition.