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''The Emperor Jones'' is a 1920 play by American dramatist Eugene O'Neill that tells the tale of Brutus Jones, an African-American with the respected work of a Pullman Porter, who visits a Caribbean island and is lured into the glamor and danger there, stabbing a local man, goes to prison, escapes, and then goes about setting 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. The play is one of O'Neil'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. 〔Renda, Mary (2001). Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. pp. 198–212. ISBN 0-8078-4938-3.〕 It draws on O'Neill's own hallucinatory experience hacking through the jungle while prospecting for gold in Honduras in 1909. 〔O'Neill - Life with Monte Cristo, NY (2000) by Arthur & Barbara Gelb, p. 〕 It was O'Neill's first big box-office hit, and the one that established him as a successful playwright, after he won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his first play, also in 1920, the much less well-known Beyond the Horizon. It was included in Burns Mantle's ''The Best Plays of 1920-1921''. ==Characters== * Brutus Jones * Smithers * Jeff * Undine * Dolly * Lem 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Emperor Jones」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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