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The Emperor Jones
Series: NHB Classic Plays
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Published in volume Anna Christie & The Emperor Jones: two plays
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First Staged:
New York, 1920; London, 1925

The Emperor Jones

By Eugene O'Neill
Published in volume Anna Christie & The Emperor Jones: two plays
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An expressionistic chronicle of a black dictator's flight from his oppressed subjects.

Brutus Jones rules his island's citizens from his opulent palace with tyrannical ease – until the day that they all disappear. They have retreated to the hills, following their former native leader Lem, and plan to revolt. It is time for the Emperor to make good his escape.

Eugene O'Neill's play The Emperor Jones was first performed at the Playwrights' Theater, New York, in November 1920. Its UK premiere was at the Ambassadors' Theatre, London, in September 1925.

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'The first serious American play about black experience... a historic landmark and a shattering piece of theatre'

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Series: NHB Classic Plays
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Published in volume Anna Christie & The Emperor Jones: two plays
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Also by Eugene O'Neill:

A Touch of the Poet
Mourning Becomes Electra
Desire Under the Elms & The Great God Brown
Anna Christie
Desire Under the Elms
Ah! Wilderness
The Great God Brown
Strange Interlude
A Moon for the Misbegotten
Anna Christie & The Emperor Jones: two plays
The Hairy Ape
The Iceman Cometh
Long Day's Journey into Night
The Hairy Ape & All God's Chillun Got Wings
All God's Chillun Got Wings

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