The title character fires one bullet into his gambling friend Jeff, one on a prison guard, two on a slave auctioneer and a plantation owner, and one on mysterious critters, which, like all the others, are only a part of his fevered imagination.
The title character fires one bullet into his gambling friend Jeff, one on a prison guard, two on a slave auctioneer and a plantation owner, and one on mysterious critters, which, like all the others, are only a part of his fevered imagination. Eventually he is hunted down and killed by the natives of the island on which he had set himself up as ruler, as the drums in the background continue to beat incessantly. For ten points, name this 1920 play by Eugene O'Neill, sometimes called the first expressionist play in America.
The title character fires one bullet into his gambling friend Jeff, one on a prison guard, two on a slave auctioneer and a plantation owner, and one on mysterious critters, which, like all the others, are only a part of his fevered imagination.
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