第二次世界大战之前的三十年代,是美国现实主义戏剧的巅峰时期,美国左翼戏剧运动如火如荼。但在1940年以后,美国风靡一时的社会问题剧似乎陡然销声匿迹了。其原因是因为一大批进步作家,甚至共产党员作家失去了对共产主义的信仰,他们对写社会问题的热情遽然消失了,有的隐身退 The thirties before the Second World War were the pinnacle of the American realistic theater. The U.S. left-wing theater movement was in full swing. However, after 1940, the drastic social issues in the United States appeared to have suddenly disappeared. The reason for this is that because a large number of progressive writers and even communist writers have lost their faith in communism, their enthusiasm for writing social issues has suddenly disappeared, and some have retreated