Femi Osofisan: Difference between revisions

Several of Osofisan's plays are adaptations of works by other writers: ''[[Women of Owu]]'' from [[Euripides]]' ''[[The Trojan Women]]'';<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Olasope|first=Olakunbi|date=2012|title=To Sack a City or to Breach a Woman's Chastity: Euripides' Trojan Women and Osofisan's Women of Owu|journal=African Performance Review, Journal of African Theatre Association UK|volume=6| issue=1 |pages=111–121}}</ref> ''Who's Afraid of Solarin?'' from [[Nikolai Gogol]]'s ''[[The Government Inspector]]''; ''No More the Wasted Breed'' from [[Wole Soyinka]]'s ''[[The Strong Breed]]''; ''Another Raft'' from [[J. P. Clark]]'s ''The Raft''; ''Tegonni: An African Antigone'' from [[Sophocles]]′ ''[[Antigone (Sophocles)|Antigone]]'',<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Olasope|first=Olakunbi|date=2002|title=Greek and Yoruba Beliefs in Sophocles' Antigone and Femi Osofisan's Adaptation, Tegonni|journal=Papers in Honour of Tekena N. Tamuno|pages=408–420}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199296101.001.0001/acprof-9780199296101-chapter-3|title=Antigone's Boat: the Colonial and the Postcolonial in Tegonni: An African Antigone by Femi Osofisan|last=Goff|first=Barbara| editor1-first=Lorna | editor1-last=Hardwick | editor2-first=Carol | editor2-last=Gillespie |date=2007-10-11|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780191712135|language=en-US|doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199296101.001.0001}}</ref> and others.

 

 

==Selected works==