![]() As Soyinka says: “ The Bacchae belongs to that sparse body of plays which evoke awareness of a particular moment in a people’s history, yet imbue that moment with a hovering, eternal presence.” The play’s emphasis on ritual sparagmos has recently been analyzed by Justine McConnell as a model for thinking about Classical Reception as a destructive-creative process of ripping apart and re-membering, particularly in the African Diaspora. Soyinka was a Nigerian playwright, poet, novelist, and political activist, and the first African to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature (in 1986). ![]() Wole Soyinka’s The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite (1973) weaves Yoruba mythology and contemporary political and social issues into Euripides’ play. ![]()
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