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Should Remi, the first of his tribe to go to university, return to his people from the city? Should he return to Thoni, his brothers widow, whom he has had to marry under tribal custom? Or should he continue to be a black hermit in the town, visiting the night clubs with his friend, Jane? Should he be supporting the Africanist Party when people feel that the colonial oppression has just been replaced by another form? These are the dramatic conflicts in this play. Ngugi wa Thiongo is best known internationally as a novelist as well as a playwright. He wrote "This Time Tomorrow" (published in...

During the nineteen years of her play-writing career, Aphra Behn had far more new plays staged than anyone else. This book is the first to examine all her theatrical work. It explains her often dominant place in the complex theatrical culture of Charles II's reign, her divided political sympathies, and her interests as a free-thinking intellectual. It also reveals her as a brilliant theatrical practitioner, who used the seen as richly and significantly as the spoken.