In the opening lines of this play, the arrival of the title character at the market is compared to a tryst in which a cockerel leaves his tail behind. An unrolled welcome mat in this play scares off an animal after it visits characters such as a priest afraid of his own divination and a constipated courier. A sergeant in this play refuses to talk to an administrator wearing an ancestral mask. In this play, a storyteller who tells of an animal known by an “answering-name” is called an (*) “eater of leftovers” by his son. In the opening scene of this play, the praise-singer is told a story about a harbinger known as the “Not-I bird.” The administrator Simon Pilkings tries to stop the title action of this play. For 10 points, name this play about Elesin’s ritual suicide by Wole Soyinka. ■END■
ANSWER: Death and the King’s Horseman
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