As is true of many other plays in the O'Neill canon, the lines of The Emperor Jones do not always read well; but, again as elsewhere, a really fine player can make them convincing. Here ...

It was no silver bullet that struck down the Emperor Jones of the Dominican Republic, but a volley of machine-gun fire. Still, like his fictional counterpart, Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas ...

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Eugene O'Neill's groundbreaking play The Emperor Jones is the story of Brutus Jones, a despot who ascends the throne using lies, intimidation and the politics of fear. Following a prison break in ...

Unscrupulously ambitious, Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and, through bluff and bravado, finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.