Transcendence of traditional melodrama A brief analysis on Lillian Hellman＇s The Little Foxes  

作　　者：SUN Jing-bo 

机构地区：[1]School of Foreign Languages, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China

出　　处：《Sino-US English Teaching》2010年第2期59-62,共4页中美英语教学（英文版）

摘　　要：Lillian Hellman is a leading figure in 20th century American theatre. Due to the intensity of feeling and the general theme of good vs. evil, her plays are tagged with ＂melodrama＂. However, by examining one of her masterpieces The Little Foxes, it is revealed that Lillian Hellman transcends the confmes of traditional melodrama by combining the complexity of real life into the pretense of representation, thus making her play forcefully believable.

关 键 词：MELODRAMA TRANSCENDENCE The Little Foxes REALISM 

分 类 号：H31[语言文字—英语]