Existential Dualism and Absurdity: Modernist Theatricality in Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman and Samuel Beckett’s Endgame
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pjes-2022-0007 | Journal eISSN: 2336-2685
Language: English
Page range: 119 - 134
Published online: Sep 13, 2022
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