{"product_id":"madmen-and-specialists-9780809012268","title":"Madmen and Specialists","description":"Written in 1971, \u003ci\u003eMadmen and Specialists\u003c\/i\u003e is one of Soyinka's most excoriating portrayals of abusers and abused in the new Nigeria ushered in by Biafra and the civil war of 1967-70. Set in the \"surgery\" of a doctor, the play is populated by mendicants and the \"insane,\" all fodder for \"experimentation\" by a shape-shifting doctor whose experiments may be more sinister than they at first appear.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWole Soyinka--\u003c\/b\u003eplaywright, novelist, poet and polemical essayist--was born in Nigeria in 1934. Educated there and at Leeds University, he worked in the British theatre before returning to West Africa in 1960. In 1986 he became the first African writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. He is currently Woodruff Professor of the Arts, Emory University, Atlanta.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Strauss \u0026 Giroux-3pl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50845432283410,"sku":"9780809012268","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6046fcbd-08f5-41d8-99c1-6e5f577bbe8c.jpg?v=1737350757","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/madmen-and-specialists-9780809012268","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}