Wole Soyinka's Works

• 1958 The Swamp Dwellers, drama
• 1959 The Lion and the Jewel, drama
  • introduction and reading questions by Paul Brians (offsite: Washington State University)
• 1960 The Trials of Brother Jero, drama
  • introduction and reading questions by Paul Brians (offsite: Washington State University)
• 1965 The Interpreters, fiction (discussion)
• ----Before the Blackout, drama
• ----Kongi's Harvest, drama
• ----The Detainee, (BBC Radio Play)
• 1967, "The Writer in a Modern African State"
• ----Idanre and Other Poems
• 1969 Poems from Prison
• ----The Road, drama
• 1970Madmen and Specialists,
  • introduction and reading questions by Paul Brians (offsite: Washington State University)
• 1972 The Man Died, (notes from prison)
• ----A Shuttle in the Crypt Discussions of individual poems
• Ogun Abibiman, poems
• 1976 Death and the King's Horseman
• 1979 Season of Anomy, fiction
• 1981 Aké: The Years of Childhood, autobiography
• ---- "The Critic and Society: Barthes, Leftocracy, and Other Mythologies"
• ---- Opera Wonyosi, an adaptation of Brecht's Three Penny Opera
• 1982 "Cross Currents: The 'New African' after Cultural Encounters"
• 1983 "Shakespeare and the Living Dramatist"
• 1985 "Climates of Art"
• 1986 "The External Encounter: Ambivalence in African Arts and Literature"
• 1987 Six Plays
• 1989 Isara: A Voyage around Essay, autobiography
• Mandela's Earth and Other Poems
• 1992 From Zia With Love
• 1995 The Beatification of Area Boy
• 1996 The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis