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Description

Widely known as the play that gave the American dramatist Eugene ONeill international acclaim; "The Emperor Jones" is a one-act play that follows the complete disintegration of Brutus Jones. This protagonist; formerly a Pullman porter in the United States; has escaped his criminal activity there by establishing himself as a ruler in the West Indies. ONeill; in an experiment with Expressionism; then leads Jones through a series of hallucinations in a forest when he attempts to escape his rebellious subjects. This highly symbolic nocturnal expedition leads Jones to confront his racially black past; as well as his own personal destruction from a man of self-confidence to a cowering shadow of his previous being. ONeills originality was as readily apparent in 1920 as it is today; for he insisted on the first racially integrated Broadway cast; particularly with an African American actor in the lead role; in the United States; ONeills amazing depiction of change and transformation in "The Emperor Jones" still