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CHAPTER 19 American DramaMade by TT 此内容仅供学习交流之用，请尊重作者版权并于下载后24小时内删除！！QQ:1019965900 The Development of American Drama Late 19th C Realists such as William Vaughn Moody attempted to place realistic drama on the American stage. 1920s representative playwright: Eugene O’Neill his work: Bound East for Caradiff 1930s Clifford Odets: Waiting for Lefty (等待老左) Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men （人鼠之间） 1940s Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie （玻璃动物园） The Development of American Drama 1960s With Edward Albee, Arthur Kopit, David Mamet and Sam Shepard active on the scene, American drama picked up a good deal of fresh energy. 1970s A、diversity became one of its salient features B、the feminist playwrights appear C、there are the multirarial and multiethnic playwrights Eugene O’Neill Life experiences: 1、His father, James O’Neill was a famous actor 2、In the winter of 1912-13 when he developed tuberculosis and was sent to a sanitarium, he had the leisure to read and meditate. 3、He joined, some time in 1914, the famous Professor Pierce Baker’s 47 Workshop at Harvard to learn to write better. 4、He received the Nobel Prize in 1936. Eugene O’Neill Features of his writing A、O’Neill began to write in a naturalistic vein B、Inspired by the prevailing zest for experimentation, he became obsessed with devices such as symbolism and expressionism. C、During the 1940s O’Neill turned back to the naturalistic spirit. Eugene O’Neill Representative works: Bound East for Cardiff (东访卡迪夫) Beyond the Horizon (天边外) The Hairy Ape (毛猿) Desire under the Elms (榆树下的欲望) Days without End (无穷的岁月) The Iceman Cometh (送冰人来了) Long Day’s Journey into Night (进入黑夜的漫漫旅程) A Moon for the Misbegotten (月照不幸人) Eugene O’Neill Best works: The Hairy Ape (毛猿) concerns the problem of modern man’s sense of “belonging”. The Iceman Cometh (送冰人来了) is the best work and represents the fact the O’Neill lifelong quest for values e