附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 116-118) and index.
"Works by William Shakespeare": pages 113-115.
Plot summary of The Taming of the shrew -- List of characters in The Taming of the shrew -- Critical views on The Taming of the shrew: August Wilhelm Schlegel on New life and The Prelude ; G. Wilson Knight on the Shakespearean Tempest ; Maynard Mack on Engagement and detachment ; Ruth Nevo on Comic transformation ; Joel Fineman on the Turn of the shrew -- Plot summary of A Middsummer night's dream -- List of characters in A Midsummer night's dream -- Critical views on A Midsummer night's dream: Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Helena's betrayal ; G.K. Chesterton on Shakespeare's mysticism of happiness ; G. Wilson Knight on Imagery and fairyland ; Northrop Frye on Expounding the dream ; E. Talbot Donaldson on Shakespeare reading Chaucer ; Harold Bloom on Bottom's common sense and natural goodness -- Plot summary of The Merchant of Venice -- List of characters in The Merchant of Venice -- Critical views of The Merchant of Venice: August Wilhelm Schlegel on Shakespeare's characterization ; William Hazlitt on the Masterpiece of Shylock ; Elmer Edgar Stoll on Shylock's penalty ; Sigmund Freud on the Theme of the three caskets ; Graham Bradshaw on teh Preoccupation with appearance ; Derek Cohen on Shakespeare's anti-semitism ; Harold Bloom on Shylock's forced coversion -- Plot summary of As you like it -- List of characters in As you like it -- Critical views on As you like it: Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare's fable ; William Hazlitt on Rosalind and Celia ; Samuel Taylor Coleridge on an Un-Shakespearean speech ; George Bernard Shaw on Shakespeare's inaccuracy ; Harold C. Goddard on the Emersonian in Shakespeare ; C.L. Barber on Touchstone's Praise of folly -- Harold Bloom on the Wit of Rosalind -- Plot summary of Twelfth night -- List of characters in Twelfth night -- Critical views on Twelfth night: Samuel Johnson on Orsino's perspective ; William Hazlitt on the Romantic and enthusiastic ; Charles Lamb on the Character of Malvolio ; Harold C. Goddard on Shakespeare's farewel
摘要:Discusses the plots, characters, and themes of five Shakespearean comedies.
