奥尼尔的“诗人”与易卜生的“野鸭”

O'Neill's Poet:Touched by Ibsen

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。

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 1930s while he worked on his great, unrealized historica] 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.