附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 114-116) and index.
Biography of William Shakespeare -- Plot summary of Hamlet -- List of characters in Hamlet -- Critical views on Hamlet. Samuel Johnson on Hamlet's variety ; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on William Meister and Hamlet ; August Wilhelm von Schlegel on Hamlet's flaws ; William Hazlitt on Hamlet's power of action ; Friedrich Nietzsche on Hamlet's Dionysiac traits ; Sigmund Freud on Hamlet's deepest impulses ; Harold C. Goddard on Hamlet's hesitation -- Plot summary of Othello -- List of characters in Othello -- Critical views on Othello. Samuel Johnson on Iago's character ; William Hazlitt on Othello's mind ; George Bernard Shaw on Iago's complex character ; A.C. Bradley on Othello's distinguishing characteristics ; William Empson on good and evil in Othello ; Harold C. Goddard on Othello's inaudible music ; W.H. Auden on Iago as a practical joker ; Harold Bloom on Iago's manipulations -- Plot summary of King Lear -- List of characters in King Lear -- Critical views on King Lear. Samuel Johnson on Cordelia's death ; Charles Lamb on King Lear as a play beyond the stage ; William Hazlitt o n Shakespeare and the logic of passion ; Leo Tolstoy on Shakespeare's failure ; A.C. Bradley on Lear's insanity ; Stephen Booth on Shakespeare's audience ; Rosalie Colie on Edgar's biblical echoes -- Plot summary of Macbeth -- List of characters in Macbeth -- Critical views on Macbeth. Samuel Johnson on Macbeth's realism ; Samuel Taylor Coleridge on the lack of punning in Macbeth ; Georg Brandes on Macbeth in comparison to Hamlet ; A.C. Bradley on Macbeth's imagination ; Wayne C. Booth on Macbeth's destruction ; Graham Bradshaw on Macbeth's two marriages ; Harold Bloom on Macbeth's gnosticism -- Plot summary of Antony and Cleopatra -- List of characters in Antony and Cleopatra -- Critical views on Antony and Cleopatra. John Dryden on characterization in the play ; William Hazlitt on Cleopatra's exuberance ; Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Cleopatra's character ; George Bernard Shaw on the Ba
摘要:Discusses the plot, characters, and themes of five Shakespearean tragedies.
