African Tragedy

Laurence Wright is an Extraordinary Professor in the Languages and Literature Research Unit at North-West University, South Africa. Formerly H.A. Molteno Professor of English and Director of the Institute for the Study of English in Africa at Rhodes University, South Africa, he is a Rhodes Scholar and a Commonwealth Scholar, and a member of the South African Academy of Science. He is Honorary Life President of the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa. He has published widely on writers such as Sol Plaatje, VS Naipaul, Edgar Allan Poe, RL Peteni, Joseph Conrad, Guy Butler, JM Coetzee, Tom Sharpe, Somerset Maugham, and on the history of Shakespeare in South Africa. He has also written on the future of the humanities in South Africa, on South African language policy, and on the Eastern Cape education crisis.