WOLE SOYINKA is a professor of comparative literature at the university of Ife, Nigeria. His plays include- The Road(seen at Theatre Royal, Stratford), in 1965, The Lion and the Jewel (Staged at London Court in 1966),Camwood on the leaves, Kongi Harvest, Madmen and specialists, and the jero plays. His version of the Bacchae of Euripides was commissioned and performed by the national theatre, London, in 1973.