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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: Directed by Dudley Murphy, William C. de Mille. With Paul Robeson, Dudley Digges, Frank H. Wilson, Fredi Washington. Unscrupulously ambitious Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and through bluff and bravado finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.
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- Drama, Music
- Dudley Murphy, William C. de Mille
- 1933-09-29
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.
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 has escaped from prison to an unnamed Caribbean island.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
28 set 2020 · The Emperor Jones is the first international triumph of expressionism by an American playwright; with it, Eugene O’Neill single-handedly introduced experimental American theater to Europe and established his reputation as the United States’ pre-eminent playwright.
The Emperor Jones è un film del 1933 diretto da Dudley Murphy sotto la supervisione di William C. de Mille. La sceneggiatura di DuBose Heyward si basa sull'omonimo dramma di Eugene O'Neill, andato in scena a New York il 1º novembre 1920
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 ...
