The Emperor Jones
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The Emperor Jones (1920), by American playwright Eugene O’Neill (1888-1953), in which a new style is tried; expressionism takes the place of realism in a drama which is, in effect, one long dramatic soliloquy revealing the terror that enters a Negro's soul as, driven into the jungle, he flies in terror from the beating of the drums.
Performed by the Witwatersrand University Players in 1928.
Sources
Footlights, 1(4):10, 1929.
World Drama, by Allardyce Nicoll. Harrap, 1949, p 884.
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