In A Dance of the Forests why does Soyinka have characters playing double roles? Give examples from the text to substantiate your answer.
Noble Laureate Wole Soyinka is the best known of Nigerian playwrights. He was born a Yoruba, in the south - west region of Nigeria. He studied at the University College of Ibadan. He then went on to the University of Leeds in England, where he was influenced by the brilliant Shakespearean scholar G. Wilson Knight. During the six years which Soyinka spent in England, he worked as a play reader at the Royal Court Theatre in London. It was here that The Swamp Dwellers (1958) and The Lion and the Jewel (1959) were produced. He returned to Nigeria to study African drama. In 1960, he started the theatre group, „The 1960 Masks‟, followed by the „Orisun theatre Company‟ in 1964. Soyinka produced and acted in his own plays. Wole Soyinka wrote A Dance of the Forests to celebrate Nigeria‟s Independence from British rule in 1960. The play is a lyrical blend of western experimentation and African folk tradition reflecting a highly original approach to drama.
Wole Soyinka has always been a political figure. At the time of the Nigerian Civil war, 1996-1970, he tried to broker a ceasefire between the federal government and the Biafran rebels who wanted to secede from the Nigerian nation state. Soyinka was placed in solitary confinement for two years for not being anti-Biafran enough to suit the leaders of Nigeria. He was released only after a lot of international campaigning against his arrest. His experience in solitary confinement is recounted in his autobiography The Man Died (1972), which is packed with conversations, interviews, interrogations and other exchanges between the author and military personnel. After release from solitary confinement, he went into voluntary exile in 1972. He then worked as a lecturer, held a fellowship at Churchill College, Cambridge, and wrote three important plays, Jero’s Metamorphosis (1973), The Bacchae (1973), and Death and the King’s Horseman (1975). In 1975 Soyinka moved to Accra, Ghana, becoming an editor of Africa‟s leading intellectual journal Transition. After a coup deposed President Gowon in 1975,
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