| 致谢 | 第1-9页 |
| 摘要 | 第9-11页 |
| Abstract | 第11-14页 |
| Introduction | 第14-42页 |
| The Necessity for Contextualization in the Study | 第14-16页 |
| Ideal Models and Realistic Origins of the Richard Ⅲ Stories | 第16-20页 |
| Purpose of the Study | 第20页 |
| Methods and Procedures | 第20-27页 |
| Previous Studies and Criticisms Related to Richard Ⅲ | 第27-31页 |
| Review of Primary Sources:Literary Texts Related to Richard Ⅲ | 第31-34页 |
| Review of Primary Sources:Historical Documents | 第34-42页 |
| Chapter 1 The Discursive Origin:Rumour | 第42-52页 |
| ·Rumours Abroad:France,1483 | 第42-45页 |
| ·Rumours within:England,1483-1485 | 第45-48页 |
| ·Spoken and Written Discourses | 第48-50页 |
| ·The Oral Origin of Written Stories of Richard Ⅲ | 第50-52页 |
| Chapter 2 The Classical Ideal:Duke of Gloucester in the Margin | 第52-80页 |
| ·The Classical Ideal in Mancini and Sir Thomas More | 第52-57页 |
| ·The Idea of "Unity" in Early Modern Plays on Richard Ⅲ | 第57-62页 |
| ·The Un-ideal Side of History:the Controversial Reality about Early Richard | 第62-70页 |
| ·Shakespeare's Idea of Unity:Richard's Personal History in the Plays | 第70-80页 |
| Chapter 3 Shakespeare's Artistic Ideal:Chains of Volte Face | 第80-97页 |
| ·Cause and Effect Thinking Patterns in Early Modern Histories | 第80-82页 |
| ·The Causal Chains in the Lives of Clarence and Gloucester in Shakespeare's Plays | 第82-87页 |
| ·The Real Stories:the Life and Death of Clarence in History | 第87-95页 |
| ·The Progress of the Stories through Rumour, History and Drama | 第95-97页 |
| Chapter 4 The Moralist Ideal:Representations and Self-Images of Richard Ⅲ and his Rivals | 第97-134页 |
| ·The "Typecast" Image of the Confessor in the Mirror for Magistrates | 第97-114页 |
| ·The Ideal Christian:the Self-Fashioning of Anthony Woodville, Earl of Rivers and Richard Ⅲ | 第114-126页 |
| ·Potential Drama in the Contrast between the Earl of Rivers and Richard | 第126-130页 |
| ·The "Unfashionable Reality":The Triangular Relationship between Richard Ⅲ, the Earl of Rivers and William Hastings | 第130-134页 |
| Chapter 5 The Political Ideal:The Mimetic Politics of Richard Ⅲ | 第134-158页 |
| ·Historical Recurrences and Political Mimesis in the Wars of the Roses | 第135-141页 |
| ·The "Play in the Play" and the Play of Politics:Political and Dramatic Mimesis in Shakespeare's Richard Ⅲ and Historical Accounts | 第141-151页 |
| ·Excursus:The Death of the Princes in the Tower | 第151-158页 |
| Chapter 6 The Popular Ideal:Public and Private Images of Edward Ⅳ, George Duke of Clarence,and Richard Ⅲ | 第158-178页 |
| ·The Popular and Private Images of Edward Ⅳ | 第159-167页 |
| ·The Popular and Private Images of George, Duke of Clarence | 第167-171页 |
| ·The Popular and Private Images of Richard Ⅲ | 第171-178页 |
| Chapter 7 Changing Times, Changing Ideals | 第178-213页 |
| ·The First Backfire:Literary and Historical Interpretations of Buckingham's Rebellion | 第179-186页 |
| ·The Fire Spreading:Large-scale Volte Face in and out of the Country | 第186-190页 |
| ·The Return of Volte Face in Literature and in Reality | 第190-197页 |
| ·Changing Discourses:"Tudor Myth" in the Making | 第197-206页 |
| ·The Birth of a New Ideal:Good Richard, Cynical History | 第206-213页 |
| Conclusion | 第213-216页 |
| Works Cited | 第216-225页 |
