Works

Plays

A Dance of the Forests. – London : Oxford Univ. Press, 1963

The Lion and the Jewel. – London : Oxford Univ. Press, 1963

Three Plays. – Evanston, IL, 1962. – Content: The Trials of Brother Jero ; The Strong Breed ; The Swamp Dwellers

Five Plays. – London : Oxford Univ Press, 1964. – Content: A Dance of the Forests ; The Lion and the Jewel ; The Swamp Dwellers ; The Trials of Brother Jero ; The Strong Breed

The Road. – London : Oxford Univ. Press, 1965

Kongi’s Harvest. – London : Oxford Univ. Press, 1967 (1966?)

Three Short Plays. – London : Oxford Univ. Press, 1969

Madmen and Specialists. – London : Methuen, 1971

The Jero Plays. – London : Eyre Methuen, cop. – 1973. – Content: The Trials of Brother Jero ; Jero’s Metamorphosis

Camwood on the Leaves. – London : Eyre Methuen, 1973

Collected Plays. – London : Oxford Univ. Press, 1973-1974. – 2 vol.

Death and the King’s Horseman. – London : Eyre Methuen, 1975

Opera Wonyosi. – Bloomington : Indiana Univ. Press, 1981

A Play of Giants. – London : Methuen, 1984

Requiem for a Futurologist. – London : Rex Colling, 1985

From Zia, With Love ; and, A Scourge of Hyacints. – London : Methuen drama, 1992

King Baabu : a Play in the Manner – Roughly – of Alfred Jarry. – London : Methuen, 2002

Poetry

Idanre & Other Poems. – London : Methuen, 1967

Poems From Prison. – London : Rex Collings, 1969

A Shuttle in the Crypt. – London : Rex Collings/Eyre Methuen, cop. – 1972. – Expanded edition of Poems from Prison

Ogun Abibimañ. – London : Rex Collings, 1976

Mandela’s Earth and Other Poems. – New York : Random House, cop. – 1988

Early Poems. – New York : Oxford University Press, 1997. – Content: Idanre & Other Poems ; A Shuttle in the Crypt

Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known. – London : Methuen, 2002

Novels

The Interpreters. – London : Andre Deutsch, 1965

The Man Died : Prison Notes. – London : Rex Collings, 1972

Season of Anomy. – London : Rex Collings, 1973

Other

Myth, Literature and the African World. – Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press, 1976

Aké : the Years of Childhood. – London : Collings, 1981

Art, Dialogue & Outrage : Essays on Literature and Culture. – Ibadan : New Horn Press, 1988

Ìsarà : a Voyage Around “Essay”. – New York: Random House, 1989

Ibadan : the Penkelemes Years : a Memoir: 1946-1965. – London : Methuen, 1994

The Open Sore of a Continent : a Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis. – New York : Oxford University Press, 1996

The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness. – London : Oxford University Press, 1998

Salutation to the Gut. – Ibadan, Nigeria : Bookcraft Ltd, Pocket gifts, cop. – 2002

The Climate of Fear : the Reith Lectures 2004. – London : Profile, 2004

You Must Set Forth at Dawn : a Memoir. – Random House, 2006

Critical studies (a selection)

Critical perspectives on Wole Soyinka / ed. by James Gibbs. – London : Heinemann, 1981

Larsen, Stephan, A Writer and His Gods : a Study of the Importance of Yoruba Myths and Religious Ideas to the Writing of Wole Soyinka. – Stockholm : Stockholm Univ., 1983

Maduakor, Obi, Wole Soyinka : an Introduction to His Writing. – New York : Garland, 1986

Before Our Very Eyes : Tribute to Wole Soyinka, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature / edited by Dapo Adelugba. – Ibadan : Spectrum Books, 1987

Research on Wole Soyinka / edited by James Gibbes & Bernth Lindfors. – Trenton : Africa World Press, 1993

Wright, Derek, Wole Soyinka Revisited. – New York : Twayne, cop. 1993

Wole Soyinka : an Appraisal / edited by Adewale Maja-Pearce. Oxford : Heinemann, 1994

Ojaide, Tanure, The Poetry of Wole Soyinka. – Lagos : Malthouse Press, 1994

Msiska, Mpalive-Hangson, Wole Soyinka. – Plymouth : Northcote House, 1998

Conversations with Wole Soyinka / edited by Biodun Jeyifo. – Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2001

Ebewo, Patrick, Barbs : a Study of Satire in the Plays of Wole Soyinka. – Kampala, Uganda : JANyeko Pub. Centre, 2002

Jeyifo, Biodun, Wole Soyinka : Politics, Poetics, Postcolonialism. – New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005

The Swedish Academy, 2006