| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第5-7页 |
| 英文摘要 | 第7-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-33页 |
| Historicizing Comedy | 第15-22页 |
| Wendy Wasserstein as a Comedy Writer | 第22-29页 |
| Layout of Dissertation | 第29-33页 |
| Chapter One:Empowerment and Containment:Women in Western Male Comedy Tradition | 第33-73页 |
| 1. "Female Intrusion" and "Powerful" Women in Aristophanes' Lysistrata | 第33-44页 |
| 2. Sexual Violation and Passive Women in Greek and Roman New Comedy | 第44-51页 |
| 3. Romance and Unruly Women in Shakespeare's Two Comedies | 第51-60页 |
| 4. Irreconcilable Battle and New Women in Shaw's and Wilde's Comedies | 第60-73页 |
| Chapter Two:Contest and Balance:Dialectical Structure of Wasserstein's Comedies | 第73-106页 |
| 1. Teleological vs. Dialectical:Structure of Comedy | 第73-79页 |
| 2. Fantasy and Contest:Plot Structure of Uncommon Women | 第79-88页 |
| 3. Balancing the Comic and the Serious:Emotional Structure in Uncommon Women | 第88-95页 |
| 4. Possibility and Hope:Romance and Ending in Uncommon Women | 第95-106页 |
| Chapter Three:Redefining Female Comic Identity:Wasserstein's Comic Heroines as Survivors | 第106-143页 |
| 1. The Polemic on Comic Women | 第106-112页 |
| 2. Sympathetic Women in Uncommon Women and Isn't It Romantic | 第112-122页 |
| 3. Reflective Comic Heroine in The Heidi Chronicles | 第122-132页 |
| 4. Women Survivors in The Sisters Rosensweigs | 第132-143页 |
| Chapter Four:Feminism in Comic Spirit:Comic Construction of Self in Wasserstein's Plays | 第143-180页 |
| 1. The Tragic Self on Feminist Stage | 第143-152页 |
| 2. Split and Reconciliation in Uncommon Women and Isn't It Romantic | 第152-162页 |
| 3. Feminism in Comic Spirit in The Heidi Chronicles | 第162-171页 |
| 4. Coming to Terms with Self in The Sisters Rosensweigs and Third | 第171-180页 |
| Conclusion | 第180-186页 |
| Works Cited | 第186-194页 |
