| Acknowledgments | 第1-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-11页 |
| Chapter One INTRODUCTION | 第11-31页 |
| ·An Introduction to Shakespeare and His Romantic Plays | 第11-14页 |
| ·An Introduction to the Twelfth Night and As You Like It | 第14-17页 |
| ·Theoretical Bases of the Reading | 第17-24页 |
| ·Mikhail Bakhtin’s Theory of “Carnival” | 第18-21页 |
| ·Jacques Derrida’s Deconstruction | 第21-24页 |
| ·Literature Review | 第24-27页 |
| ·Significance of the Study | 第27-31页 |
| Chapter Two A POSTMODERNIST READING OF TWELFTH NIGHT | 第31-46页 |
| ·The Opposition of the Official World and the “Carnival” World | 第31-38页 |
| ·The Official World: the Court of Duke Orsino | 第32-36页 |
| ·The “Carnival” World: the House of Olivia | 第36-38页 |
| ·The Subversion and Deconstruction in Twelfth Night | 第38-46页 |
| ·The Subversion of the Hierarchy | 第39-40页 |
| ·The Subversion of the Puritanical Values | 第40-42页 |
| ·The Deconstruction of the Traditional Function of “Words” | 第42-46页 |
| Chapter Three A POSTMODERNIST READING OF AS YOU LIKE IT | 第46-62页 |
| ·The Opposition of the Official World and the “Carnival” World | 第46-53页 |
| ·The Official World: the Court of Duke Frederick | 第48-50页 |
| ·The “Carnival” World: the Forest of Arden | 第50-53页 |
| ·The Subversion and Deconstruction in As You Like It | 第53-62页 |
| ·The Subversion of the Life Philosophy in the Official World | 第54-58页 |
| ·The Deconstruction of Traditional Gender Roles | 第58-62页 |
| Chapter Four CONCLUSION:The Relationship Between the Carnival World andShakespeare’s Ideal Society | 第62-66页 |
| WORK CITED | 第66-68页 |
| Appendix 攻读学位期间发表的论文 | 第68-69页 |