威廉·莎士比亚

List of figures and tables

Preface

Chapter 1 Character

Juliets balcony， Verona

Shakespeares realism?

Shakespeares unreal characters

Reading Shakespeares characters on the page

Embodying Shakespeares characters on stage

Doubling on the early modern stage

Writing for particular actors

Falstaff：character as individual or type?

Naming and individuality

Characters as individuals or as inter-relationships

Character：interior or exterior?

Character：where next?

Chapter 2 Performance

Measure for Measure. staging silence

Going back to the text：the challenge of performance

Performance interpretations：The Taming of the Shrew

Topical performance：the plays in different theatrical contexts

Citing performances

Using film

Using film comparatively：Macbeth

Hamlet：To be or not to be

Adaptations：Shakespearean enough?

Performance：where next?

Chapter 3 Texts

Shakespeares hand

So what did Shakespeare write?

Stage to page

Quartos and Folio

Editing as interpretation

The job of the editor：the example of Richard Ⅱ

Stage directions

Speech prefixes

The job of the editor：the example of KingLear

Texts：where next?

Chapter 4 Language

In a double sense(Macbeth 5.7.50)

Did anyone really talk like that?

Playing with language

Language of the play/language of the person

Prose and verse

Linguistic shifts：i Henry Ⅳ

Shakespeares verse

Linguistic variation：A Midsummer Nights Dream

Language：where next?

Chapter 5 Structure

Finding the heart of the play

Shakespeares genres：dynamic， not static

Tragedy and comedy

Tragedy-expanding the genre

Comedy-expanding the genre

History：is this a fixed genre?

Structuring scenes：Much Ado About Nothing

Juxtaposing scenes， activating ironies：Henry V

Showing v. telling

Structure：where next?

Chapter 6 Sources

Antony and Cleopatra and Plutarch

Originality：was Shakespeare a plagiarist?

Shakespeare at work：the intentional fallacy?

The source bites back：Romeo and Juliet and The Winters Tale

The strong poet? King Lear

Sources：where next?

Chapter 7 History

Politic picklocks：interpreting topically

History plays：political Shakespeare?

History plays：Shakespeare as propagandist?

Hamlet as history play?

Jacobean patronage：King Lear and Macbeth

Historical specificity：gender roles

Race and Othello

History：where next?

Bibliography

Index

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