尤金·奥尼尔是美国当代最著名的剧作家,是在戏剧文学创作方而获得诺贝尔奖的唯一的美国人。他首次把戏剧视为严肃的文学,他还是带一位坚持悲剧创作的作家。在他看来,剧院是表现深刻思想的场所。他总渴望现代的美国戏剧能达到古希腊悲剧的水平。 Eugene O’Neill is America’s most famous contemporary playwright and the only American who won the Nobel Prize in the theater literature. For the first time he saw drama as serious literature, and he brought a writer who insisted on tragedy. In his opinion, the theater is a place for expressing profound thoughts. He always longs for modern American theater to reach the level of ancient Greek tragedy.