The Research Of Drama Influence From Eugene O’neill To Yu Shangyuan

In this paper, American and Chinese expressionist dramatist Eugene O’Neill dramatist Yu Shangyuan as the object of influence research. This thesis holds that, in the study period, Yu Shangyuan’s contact to the Eugene O’Neill’s expressionist drama and by the impact, he absorbed and carried forward the subjective principle of O’Neill’s drama aesthetic ideology, critically accepted subversive principles, and gradually formed its own drama view. In the drama creation, the theme of the text of Yu Shangyuan drama and the artistic technique and Eugene O’neill’s works have obvious relations of inheritance. Leave beauty after returning, Yu Shangyuan s in Chinese traditional opera as the transformation object, Eugene O’Neill’s expressionist drama thought in China try to "National Drama movement", which not only promoted the spread of O’Neill’s scripts in China, but also promoted the development of modern Chinese drama.