奥尼尔的“诗人”与易卜生的“野鸭”

奥尼尔的《诗人的气质》一剧明显带有"易卜生意识"的痕迹,这表明,易卜生可能对奥尼尔剧作法方向上的转变产生了极为重要的影响,他使得奥尼尔在20世纪30年代这一过渡时期,建构了体裁与结构的新方法。这种"易卜生联系"在奥尼尔的剧作中体现甚丰,比如易卜生的两部剧作《野鸭》和《海达·高布乐》同《诗人的气质》之间的联系,不仅情节相似,主题对应,而且结构上也有明显的关联性。

O'Neill's Poet:Touched by Ibsen

Conspicuous traces of " Ibsen consciousness" in A Touch of the Poet suggest that the Norwegian master may have played an important role in O'Neill's transformed dramaturgy and new approach to genre,developed in the transitional years of the 1930 s while he worked on his great,unrealized historical cycle. Evidence of an Ibsen connection runs from plot similarities to thematic parallels and to an apparent structural relationship between two Ibsen plays and A Touch of the Poet.