威廉莎士比亚(英文)剑桥文学名家研习系列(美国卷)之一

List of figures and tablesPrefaceChapter 1 CharacterJuliet's balcony, VeronaShakespeare's realism?Shakespeare's 'unreal' charactersReading Shakespeare's characters on the pageEmbodying Shakespeare's characters on stageDoubling on the early modern stageWriting for particular actorsFalstaff：character as individual or type?Naming and individualityCharacters as individuals or as inter-relationshipsCharacter：interior or exterior?Character：where next?Chapter 2 PerformanceMeasure for Measure. staging silence'Going back to the text'：the challenge of performancePerformance interpretations：The Taming of the ShrewTopical performance：the plays in different theatrical contextsCiting performancesUsing filmUsing film comparatively：MacbethHamlet:'To be or not to be'Adaptations：Shakespearean enough?Performance：where next?Chapter 3 TextsShakespeare's handSo what did Shakespeare write?Stage to pageQuartos and FolioEditing as interpretationThe job of the editor：the example of Richard ⅡStage directionsSpeech prefixesThe job of the editor：the example of KingLearTexts：where next?Chapter 4 Language'In a double sense'(Macbeth 5.7.50)Did anyone really talk like that?Playing with languageLanguage of the play/language of the personProse and verseLinguistic shifts：i Henry ⅣShakespeare's verseLinguistic variation：A Midsummer Night's DreamLanguage：where next?Chapter 5 StructureFinding the heart of the playShakespeare's genres：dynamic, not staticTragedy and comedyTragedy-expanding the genreComedy-expanding the genreHistory：is this a fixed genre?Structuring scenes：Much Ado About NothingJuxtaposing scenes, activating ironies：Henry VShowing v. tellingStructure：where next?Chapter 6 SourcesAntony and Cleopatra and PlutarchOriginality：was Shakespeare a plagiarist?Shakespeare at work：the intentional fallacy?The source bites back：Romeo and Juliet and The Winter's TaleThe strong poet? King LearSources：where next?Chapter 7 HistoryPolitic picklocks：interpreting topicallyHistory plays：political Shakespeare?History plays：Shakespeare as propagandist?Hamlet as history play?Jacobean patronage：King Lear and MacbethHistorical specificity：gender rolesRace and OthelloHistory：where next?BibliographyIndex