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Wole Soyinka's *A Dance of the Forests* is a landmark postcolonial play that departs significantly from the conventions of Western drama by integrating the ritualistic, mythological, and theatrical traditions of the Yoruba culture. Written for Nigeria's Independence celebrations in 1960, the play rejects the expectation of a glorious national past and instead presents a complex vision of history, morality, and human responsibility. Soyinka reshapes the Western dramatic form by combining its structural elements with Yoruba cosmology, ritual performances, symbolic characters, music, dance, and masquerade traditions, thereby creating a distinctive dramatic idiom. Unlike the linear structure of conventional Western drama, *A Dance of the Forests* ____ ________ ____ ______ ____ ________ __________ __________ ________.
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