目次
- 1 Perspectives that Animate the Play
- Nothingness
- Stretched upon the Rack
- Memento Mori
- Madness and Folly
- Theatrum Mundi
- 2 The Beginning of the End(Ⅰ.i)
- Plenitude and Power
- Cordelia’s“Nothing”
- Dispersal
- 3 Folly:Invitation and Resistance(Ⅰ.ii−v)
- Edmund,Goneril,and Kent as Actors−Playwrights−Directors
- The King and the Fool
- 4 Pushed toward the Edge(Ⅱ)
- Two Outlaws
- Fools’Play−Before the Storm
- “What Need One?”
- 5 On the Verge(Ⅲ)
- “Contending with the Fretful Elements”
- Surrender to Madness
- The Fool’s Good‐Bye
- The Blinding of Gloucester
- 6 The Pull of Stasis and Hope for Change(Ⅳ.i−vi)
- Building up Hope
- “Slough of Despond”
- A Fabricated Miracle:Dans Macabre Inverted
- The Smell of Mortality
- 7 Three Phases of the Human Condition(Ⅳ.vii−Ⅴ.ii)
- Reunion with Cordelia
- Preparations for Battle
- Gloucester under a Tree
- 8 The Revelation of Death as Finality(Ⅴ.iii)
- To Prison:Death as Déjà‐là
- Crowding the Stage:“Great Thing of Us Forgot!”
- Gone Indeed