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在美国文学中戏剧的发展历史较短.在殖民地和独立后的相当一段时间内,戏剧的成就和影响比不上小说、诗歌等.二十世纪初,尤金·奥尼尔(1888—1953)第一个使戏剧成为文学的重要形式,用以表达作者对人生和社会的看法.他以自然主义和表现主义相结合,写了许多悲剧作品,开创了美国戏剧的新局面,成为美国第一个荣获诺贝尔文学奖的剧作家,在世界剧坛为美国争得了一席之地.继他之后.尤其是第二次世界大战以后出现了一批反映美国社会现实矛盾,艺术上大胆创新的剧作家.田纳西·威廉斯就是其中影响最大、成就最突出者之一.
Drama has a short history of development in American literature.After a long period of colonialism and independence, the achievements and influences of the drama can not compare with novels, poems, etc. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Eugene O’Neill (1888-1953) An important form of literature that makes drama an expression of the author’s views of life and society.He combined naturalism with expressionism, wrote many tragic works, and created a new situation in the American theater. He became the first American The playwright who won the Nobel Prize for literature won a place for the United States in the theater of the world.After that, especially after World War II, there appeared a group of playwrights who reflected the contradictions in American society and made bold innovations in art. Williams is one of the most influential, most prominent achievements.