CONTENTS 3
编者的话 3
Preface 4
Contents 5
Introduction：The Idea of a Theatre 7
PART ONE：From the Beginning to Shakespeare 13
Introduction 13
Quem Quaeritis 16
Abraham and Isaac 19
Everyman 32
Udall：Ralph Roister Doister 53
PART TWO：Shakespeare and His Contemporaries 64
Introduction 64
Marlowe：Doctor Faustus 68
Shakespeare：Hamlet 114
Shakespeare：The Tempest 209
Jonson：Volpone 226
Beaumont：The Knight of the Burning Pestle 260
Webster：Duchess of Malfi 284
PART THREE：Restoration and the Eighteenth Century 308
Introduction 308
Dryden：All for Love 312
Congreve：The Way of the World 334
Sheridan：The School for Scandal 357
PART FOUR：The Nineteenth Century 381
Introduction 381
Robertson：Caste 384
Wilde：Lady Windermere's Fan 402
PART FIVE：The Twentieth Century 419
Introduction 419
Shaw：Major Barbara 422
Osborne：Look Back in Anger 465
Pinter：The Dumb Waiter 496
Bond：Lear 530
A Representative List of Plays 547
Selective Bibliography 551