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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
- 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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El emperador Jones, más que un drama, es un monólogo interior dramatizado: en seis escenas, de ocho que tiene la obra, Jones no hace otra cosa sino hablar consigo mismo, o mejor dicho, con su instinto casi inconsciente; y este elemento originario — que en La luna del Caribe se identifica con el mar — es aquí todo uno con la selva, la ...
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
28 de sept. de 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 is a commentary on the United States' occupation of Haiti, and the play comments in broader terms on American imperialism around the globe. In 1915, amid rising global tensions prior to World War I, the US invaded Haiti as a show of strength and influence to intimidate Germany.
Título original: The Emperor Jones. Sinopsis: Brutus Jones (Paul Robeson), quien trabaja en un ferrocarril, asesina a un amigo por hacer trampas con los dados y es condenado a trabajos forzados a perpetuidad.
