The Cambridge introduction to Shakespeare = 威廉·莎士比亚 /

　　List of figures and tables
　　Preface
　　Chapter 1 Character
　　 Juliet's balcony, Verona
　　 Shakespeare's realism？
　　 Shakespeare's 'unreal' characters
　　 Reading Shakespeare's characters on the page
　　 Embodying Shakespeare's 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
　　 Shakespeare's 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
　　 Shakespeare's verse
　　 Linguistic variation：A Midsummer Night's Dream
　　 Language：where next？
　　Chapter 5 Structure
　　 Finding the heart of the play
　　 Shakespeare's 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 Winter's 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