《天边外》是美国著名戏剧作家奥尼尔的代表之作。在这部秉承传统悲剧观念的现代悲剧中,奥尼尔以现实主义等表现手段将美国社会现实条件下的孤独灵魂和扭曲心灵描绘得惟妙惟肖,更将其本人在理想与现实的巨大差异下的失落、在东西方文化碰撞后的窘迫挥洒得淋漓尽致。 “Outside the Horizon” is a famous American playwright O’Neill’s representative. In this modern tragedy upholding the traditional concept of tragedy, O’Neill portrays the lonely soul and the distorted soul under the realistic conditions of the United States vividly with the means of realism. It even loses himself, under the huge difference between ideal and reality, After the collision of Eastern and Western cultures, the embarrassment swayed most vividly.