| Introduction | 第1-18页 |
| 1 Tony Kushner and His plays | 第11-13页 |
| 2 Purpose of the Research | 第13-16页 |
| 3 Design of the Research | 第16-18页 |
| Chapter One Literature Review | 第18-28页 |
| 1 Angels: a Literature Review | 第18-21页 |
| 2 Significance of the Research | 第21-22页 |
| 3 Theoretical Framework | 第22-28页 |
| ·Review of Intertextuality | 第22-24页 |
| ·Theory of Bakhtin and Kristeva | 第24-28页 |
| Chapter Two Intermingling with the Biblical Texts | 第28-45页 |
| 1 Interweaving between the Biblical Texts and the Play | 第29-38页 |
| ·Story of Jacob | 第29-34页 |
| ·Louis and Mark of Cain | 第34-35页 |
| ·Prior and Lazarus | 第35-36页 |
| ·The Bethesda Angel | 第36-38页 |
| 2 Rewriting of the Bible | 第38-45页 |
| ·Heaven and Angels | 第39-41页 |
| ·Appropriation of Prior as the Prophet | 第41-45页 |
| ·Prior's Wrestle with Angel | 第41-42页 |
| ·Significance of Prior as the Prophet | 第42-45页 |
| Chapter Three Interaction with Historical Texts | 第45-65页 |
| 1 Kushner's Aesthetics of History and Progress | 第46-48页 |
| ·Kushner and Walter Benjamin | 第46-48页 |
| ·Kushner and Raymond William | 第48页 |
| 2 Recurrence of Personal Historical Texts | 第48-54页 |
| ·Non-remembrance of the Past | 第48-50页 |
| ·Deliberate Desertion of Values and the Resulting Moral Dilemma | 第50-54页 |
| 3 Recurrent History and its Revelation | 第54-58页 |
| ·Origin of Prior's Family and the Taupex Tapestry | 第55-56页 |
| ·Visitation by the Ghosts | 第56-58页 |
| 4 Appropriation of Historical Texts-Roy Cohn's Story | 第58-65页 |
| Chapter Four Inter-references with Literary Texts | 第65-75页 |
| 1 Disillusion towards Contemporary America | 第66-70页 |
| ·Contrast with the Utopian America of Whitman | 第66-69页 |
| ·Menace of Extreme individualism | 第69-70页 |
| 2 Vision of Contemporary America | 第70-75页 |
| Conclusion | 第75-78页 |
| Works Cited | 第78-80页 |
