| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第8-10页 |
| Chapter 1. Introduction | 第10-12页 |
| Chapter 2. New Historicism and Cultural Materialism | 第12-23页 |
| ·An Introduction of New Historicism | 第12-16页 |
| ·Two Branches of New Historicism: Cultural Poetics and Cultural Materialism | 第16-17页 |
| ·New Historicism and Renaissance Literature | 第17-23页 |
| Chapter 3. Competing Ideologies in King Lear | 第23-52页 |
| ·Ideologies Concerning King's Divinity | 第23-34页 |
| ·Buchanan's View of King's Divinity: A Subversive Ideology | 第23-24页 |
| ·King James' View of King's Divinity: A Consolidating Ideology | 第24-27页 |
| ·Competing Ideologies of King's Divinity in King Lear | 第27-34页 |
| ·Ideologies Concerning Patriarchy in King Lear | 第34-45页 |
| ·Consolidation of Patriarchy by Violation in King Lear | 第34-39页 |
| ·Subversive Individualism in King Lear | 第39-42页 |
| ·Utopian Idealism and Existentialism in King Lear | 第42-45页 |
| ·King Lear as a Propaganda for King James' Project for Union | 第45-52页 |
| ·King James' Propaganda for Union | 第45-47页 |
| ·King Lear as a Propaganda for Union | 第47-52页 |
| Chapter 4 Conclusion | 第52-54页 |
| Notes | 第54-58页 |
| Bibliography | 第58-60页 |
| 攻读硕士学位期间发表的论文目录 | 第60页 |
