威廉斯剧作的诗意追求——评《玻璃动物园》

Tennessee Williams's Pursuit of Poetic Qualities in The Glass Menagerie

威廉斯在其成名作《玻璃动物园》中自觉地将传统与创新、现实主义与现代主义揉合在一起,成功地开创了一种抒情的、诗意的造型戏剧。本文从该剧诗样的意象建构、表现主义与象征主义完美统一的舞台设计、以及富于联想和韵律化的语言等方面深入探讨了威廉斯剧作的诗化倾向,旨在揭示威廉斯不仅是一位当之无愧的戏剧改革家,而且是一位真正意义上的戏剧诗人。

In The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams successfully created a new plastic theatre to take the place of the exhausted theatre of realistic conventions. Through the careful study of the play's imagery construction, the perfect combination of expressionism and symbolism in stage devices, as well as its metrical speech patterns, this essay attempts to explore the poetic qualities of The Glass Menagerie and demonstrate that Williams is not only a great drama innovator but a true poet of the theatre.