目次
1 King Lear and the Age of Shakespeare(Lear’s “darker purpose”;Resistance of Cordelia;Edmund,Goneril,Regan;Lear as a Ward of his Daughters;Lear’s One Hundred Knights;The “good pity”of Lear,Gloucester and Edgar)
2 Thomas Middleton,The Revengers Tragedie and Mannerism(The Light in the Darkness of Night―Expression of the Inner World;The Discrepancy between Man and his Environment;Realistic Details in the Imaginary Framework;Distorted Figures and the Disparity between Mind and Body;Invalid Human Relationships;Spurio the Bastard―the Figura Serpentinata;Vindice―Mental Fragmentation)