二十世纪初期,美国戏剧还非常落后。然而尤金·奥尼尔(Eugene O’Neill 1888—1953)在1920年,以他的第一部长篇剧作《天边外》(Beyond the Horizon)打破了美国戏剧文学的沉寂。在此后的四分之一世纪里、他的戏剧创作经久不衰。他一生中所创作的剧本有四十多部搬上舞台,没有上演的剧本几乎也有这么多。1936年,尤金·奥尼尔以他卓 In the early twentieth century, American drama was still very backward. However, Eugene O’Neill (1888-1953) broke the silence of American theater literature in 1920 with his first full-length play Beyond the Horizon. In the quarter-century thereafter, his dramatic writing has been enduring. There are more than 40 plays written throughout his life on stage, and there are almost no scripts that have not been staged yet. In 1936, Eugene O’Neill to him Zhuo