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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
- November 1, 1920
- 1920
- A West Indian island not yet self-determined, but for the moment, an empire.
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: 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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El emperador Jones es una obra de teatro trágica de 1920 del dramaturgo estadounidense Eugene O'Neill que cuenta la historia de Brutus Jones, un afroamericano ingenioso y seguro de sí mismoy ex portero de Pullman , que mata a otro hombre negro en un juego de dados y es encarcelado. y luego escapa a una pequeña isla caribeña atrasada donde ...
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.
