Critical Responses: Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel.
Source: Bryan Aubrey, Critical Essay on The Trials of Brother Jero, in Drama for Students, Gale, Cengage Learning, 2009. Alan Jacobs. In the following excerpt, Jacobs provides an overview of Soyinka's life and oeuvre, including The Trials of Brother Jero, and emphasizes the playwright's significance to contemporary literature. 1.I have chosen the quote above as a starting point for my essay because I believe that Africa as a continent has seen such extremes of political and social upheaval that to overlook the importance of history, and its affects down the evolutionary scale on the people of Africa, in African literature and particularly in Soyinka’s The Trials of Brother Jero would be very wrong.This is the first play that we are going to do as part of a tie-up with a group of African actors called the Ijinle Players, who did a tremendous production of Soyinka’s play The Trials of Brother Jero at the Hampstead Theatre Club, and was the first play I went to see twice in about the last ten years. It had a vitality and immediacy which.
Comedy As A Way Of Correcting The Ills Of Society: A Critical Reading Of Wole Soyinka's The Trials Of Brother Jero And Harold Pinter's The Caretaker.Essays and criticism on Wole Soyinka, including the works The Lion and the Jewel, Death and the King’s Horseman, “Season”, You Must Set Forth at Dawn - Magill's Survey of World Literature.
Quarterly and the Arts, The Trials of Brother Jero, Akin Adesokan has called it “perhaps the most performed of Soyinka’s plays and either its comedy or its accessibility has helped it stay in various repertories, or on the reading lists (90). Since its publication, the play has also been the target of much critical discussion. Critics have.
