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The Emperor Jones is a 1920 tragic play by American dramatist Eugene O'Neill that tells the tale of Brutus Jones, a resourceful, self-assured African American and a former Pullman porter, who kills another black man in a dice game, is jailed, and later escapes to a small, backward Caribbean island where he sets himself up as emperor.
- Eugene O'Neill
- 1920
The Emperor Jones, drama in eight scenes by Eugene O’Neill, produced in 1920 and published in 1921. The Emperor Jones was the playwright’s first foray into Expressionist writing. Based loosely on an event in Haitian history, the play shows the decline of a former Pullman porter, Brutus Jones, who.
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The Emperor Jones is a 1933 American pre-Code film adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's 1920 play of the same title, directed by iconoclast Dudley Murphy, written for the screen by playwright DuBose Heyward and starring Paul Robeson in the title role (a role he played onstage, both in the US and UK), and co-starring Dudley Digges, Frank H ...
A film adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's play about a former convict who becomes the ruler of a Caribbean island. See cast, crew, reviews, trivia, awards, and more on IMDb, the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content.
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- Drama, Music
- Dudley Murphy, William C. de Mille
- 1933-09-29
A play about Brutus Jones, a former convict who becomes a tyrannical ruler of a Caribbean island and faces a rebellion. Read the plot summary, themes, quotes, characters, and symbols of this classic drama.
L'imperatore Jones ( The Emperor Jones) è un' opera teatrale del drammaturgo statunitense Eugene O'Neill, esordita a New York nel 1920. Il dramma racconta dell'intraprendente afroamericano Brutus Jones, un lavoratore delle ferrovie imprigionato per omicidio, poi fuggito in un'isola caraibica dove si autoproclama imperatore.
28 set 2020 · A play review that explores the themes, characters, and historical context of O’Neill’s expressionist drama about a black emperor in the Caribbean. The review also discusses the play’s impact on African-American theater and the reception of its controversial language and imagery.
