●Chapter One Introduction
● 1.1 The Unfavourable Reception of Jacobean Drama in China
● 1.2 The High Estimation of the Plays in the West
● 1.3 Review of Literature
● 1.4 The Prominence of the Heroines in Jacobean Drama
● 1.5 The Argument of This Book
●CHapter Two A New Temper in Jacobean Tragedies
● 2.1 General Characteristics of English Renaissance Tragedies
● 2.2 Specific Traits of Later Jacobean Tragedies
● 2.3 The Cenatral Position of Men s Military or Political Ambition in Earlier Renaissance Tragedies
● 2.4 The Prominent Position of Emotional or Domestic Life in Later Jacobean Tragedies
● 2.5 The Equivocal Status of the Protagonists in Later Jacobean Tragedies
●Chapter Three Causes of the New Temper
● 3.1 Personal and So Influences
● 3.2 The Contemporary Debate on Woman
● 3.3 The Influence of King James Iand His Court
● 3.4 A General Pessimism and Stress on Individualism
● 3.5 The Rise of the Middle Class
● 3.6 Literary Influences
● 3.7 Summary of the Various Causes......
內容簡介
全書共分六章。靠前章簡要介紹了詹姆斯一世後斯的悲劇在靠前外的研究現狀,指出它們在國外學術界的重要地位和靠前研究的匱乏,以及本書的寫作初衰,即希望通過對其中幾部重要悲劇中女性角色的研究喚起靠前學者對英國文學目前這一重要時期的生視。
第二章主要對比詹姆斯一世後期的英國悲劇與莎士比亞時期的悲劇在主題、人物等方面的異同,揭示它們之間的明顯區別,即莎士比亞時期的英國悲劇男性占保證的知名品牌地位,而在詹姆斯一世後期的悲劇中占中心位置的往往是女性人物;前者往往以戰爭或政治生活為大背景,後者更多的是對家庭、感情世界等的關注;前者通常有一個個性鮮明的主人公,而在後斯的悲劇中主人公的地位有時會很不明確。
第三章分析了造成這些區別的社會、哲學、文學思潮等各種因素,如作家個人的成長經歷,詹姆斯一世及其宮......