Widely known as the play that gave the American dramatist Eugene O'Neill 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. O'Neill, 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. O'Neill's 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; O'Neill's amazing depiction of change and transformation in "The Emperor Jones" still endures.
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The beating of the tom-tom.
评分冲突弱化、意向叠生
评分《原野》会不会学太多了
评分舞台说明很繁杂，搬进剧场效果一定很惊艳。立意太深刻了，在美国越狱的黑人偷渡来到一座岛当上了皇帝，王位在一夜间瓦解的故事。琼斯的悲剧是社会和个人共同酿成的：南北战争前黑奴制毫不留情地剥削、折磨他，但当他来到这座全是同为黑人的岛屿时又残酷地对待他们。二至七场琼斯在森林中看到的幻象越来越瘆人，愈加密集的手鼓咚咚声带来了节奏感，最后手鼓声戛然而止时仿佛迎来了解脱。
评分梦境、潜意识、原始宗教、大量的隐喻和象征。神秘的丛林之夜
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