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The Emperor Jones by Eugene O'Neill

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Name: Eugene O'Neill
Birth Date: October 16, 1888
Death Date: November 27, 1953
Place of Birth: New York, New York, United States
Place of Death: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: playwright

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Biography of Eugene O'Neill
17194 words, approx. 57.3 pages
In the 1910s the American theater, long dominated by melodramas, dictatorial producers (most of whom were artless magnates), and an audience more drawn by stars-preferably Britishthan good scripts, was finally ready to establish its own identity. The cha...
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Biography of Eugene (Gladstone) O'Neill
16062 words, approx. 53.5 pages
In the 1910s the American theatre, long dominated by melodramas, dictatorial producers (most of whom were artless magnates), and an audience more drawn by stars--preferably British--than good scripts, was finally ready to establish its own identity. The...
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Biography of Eugene O'Neill
5857 words, approx. 19.5 pages
"I want to be an artist or nothing," wrote aspiring playwright Eugene O'Neill at the age of twenty-five. He pursued his goal relentlessly, and when he died forty years later he had written more than fifty plays, won the Nobel and several Pulitzer prizes,...
 


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The Emperor Jones Information
1,025 words, approx. 3 pages
The Emperor Jones is a play by Eugene O'Neill which tells the tale of Brutus Jones, an African American man who kills a man, goes to prison, escapes to a Caribbean island, and sets himself up as emperor. The play recounts his story in flashbacks as...


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Cineaste
The Emperor Jones. (video recording)
01/01/1995: 1,196 words, approx. 4 pages
A valuable consequence of the new electronic exhibition technologies (videotape, cable TV, CD-ROM, etc.) is that many almost forgotten films featuring black actors of the distant, pre-civil rights past are now entering a sort of electronic general circulation. This process is shaping a new...
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Variety
The Emperor Jones.(Theater review)
03/20/2006: 802 words, approx. 3 pages
(ST. ANN'S WAREHOUSE; 200 SEATS; $37.50 TOP) NEW YORK A Wooster Group presentation of a play in one act by Eugene O'Neill. Directed by Elizabeth LeCompte. Set, Jim Clayburgh; costumes, Wooster Group; lighting, Jennifer Tipton; original music, David Linton; video, Christopher Kondek; sound,...


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