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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. The play recounts his story in flashbacks as Brutus makes his way through the jungle in an attempt to escape former subjects who have rebelled against him. Originally called The Silver Bullet, the play is one of O'Neill's major experimental works, mixing expressionism and realism, and the use of an unreliable narrator and multiple points of view. It was also an oblique commentary on the U.S. occupation of Haiti after bloody rebellions there, an act of imperialism that was much condemned in O'Neill's radical political circles in New York. The Emperor Jones draws on O'Neill's own hallucinatory experience hacking through the jungle while prospecting for gold in Honduras in 1909, as well as the brief, brutal presidency of Haiti's Vilbrun Guillaume Sam. The Emperor Jones was O'Neill's first big box-office hit. It established him as a successful playwright, after he won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his first play, the much less well-known Beyond the Horizon (1920). The Emperor Jones was included in Burns Mantle's The Best Plays of 1920–1921. (en)
- 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. La pièce racconta la storia di Brutus attraverso una serie di flashback mentre il dittatore si nasconde nella foresta per fuggire al popolo locale, che gli si è ribellato contro. Originariamente intitolato The Silver Bullet, L'imperatore Jones è una delle opere più sperimentali di O'Neill, che mischia espressionismo e realismo attraverso un narratore non affidabile. Il dramma offre inoltre un commento all'occupazione statunitense di Haiti, che scatenò una serie di rivolte sanguinose. L'opera è stata anche influenzata dalle allucinazioni che O'Neill sperimentò mentre attraversava le foreste dell'Honduras in cerca d'oro nel 1909. La figura di Jones è inoltre ispirata a quella del presidente di Haiti , la cui breve e violenta presidenza si concluse con il suo linciaggio. (it)
- The Emperor Jones is een toneelstuk uit 1920 van de Amerikaanse dramaturg Eugene O'Neill. The Emperor Jones gaat over Brutus Jones, een Afro-Amerikaan die een man doodt, daarvoor naar de gevangenis moet, vervolgens ontsnapt naar een Caribisch eiland, en zich daar installeert als keizer. Het stuk vertelt het verhaal in flashbacks terwijl Brutus zich een weg baant door het bos om te ontsnappen aan een groep 'onderdanen' die tegen hem in verzet zijn gekomen. Het stuk toont een mix van expressionisme en realisme, die ook kenmerkend is voor verschillende andere toneelstukken van O'Neill, waaronder . Met dit toneelstuk kreeg O'Neill voor het eerst gunstige kritieken en het was bovendien een commercieel succes dat zijn carrière als dramaturg lanceerde. (nl)
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- A West Indian island not yet self-determined, but for the moment, an empire.
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- A Black porter attains power in the West Indies by exploiting the superstitions and ignorance of an island's residents.
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- Charles S. Gilpin in The Emperor Jones (en)
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- A Black porter attains power in the West Indies by exploiting the superstitions and ignorance of an island's residents. (en)
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- The Emperor Jones is een toneelstuk uit 1920 van de Amerikaanse dramaturg Eugene O'Neill. The Emperor Jones gaat over Brutus Jones, een Afro-Amerikaan die een man doodt, daarvoor naar de gevangenis moet, vervolgens ontsnapt naar een Caribisch eiland, en zich daar installeert als keizer. Het stuk vertelt het verhaal in flashbacks terwijl Brutus zich een weg baant door het bos om te ontsnappen aan een groep 'onderdanen' die tegen hem in verzet zijn gekomen. Het stuk toont een mix van expressionisme en realisme, die ook kenmerkend is voor verschillende andere toneelstukken van O'Neill, waaronder . Met dit toneelstuk kreeg O'Neill voor het eerst gunstige kritieken en het was bovendien een commercieel succes dat zijn carrière als dramaturg lanceerde. (nl)
- 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. The play recounts his story in flashbacks as Brutus makes his way through the jungle in an attempt to escape former subjects who have rebelled against him. (en)
- 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. La pièce racconta la storia di Brutus attraverso una serie di flashback mentre il dittatore si nasconde nella foresta per fuggire al popolo locale, che gli si è ribellato contro. (it)
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- The Emperor Jones (en)
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- The Emperor Jones (toneelstuk) (nl)
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