| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第6-8页 |
| Introduction | 第8-11页 |
| Chapter One Theories of the Dramatic Monologue | 第11-22页 |
| ·Theoretical development of the dramatic monologue | 第11-18页 |
| ·Definition of the dramatic monologue | 第18-22页 |
| ·Speaker other than the poet | 第18-19页 |
| ·Presence of a silent audience | 第19-20页 |
| ·Focus on self-revelation of the speaker | 第20-22页 |
| Chapter Two Voices Working in the Dramatic Monologue | 第22-41页 |
| ·Voice of the speaker | 第22-31页 |
| ·The first-person speaker | 第23-25页 |
| ·Identity of the speaker | 第25-27页 |
| ·Unreliability of the speaker | 第27-29页 |
| ·Self-revelation of the speaker | 第29-31页 |
| ·Voice of the audience | 第31-35页 |
| ·Presence of the audience | 第32-33页 |
| ·Identity of the audience | 第33-34页 |
| ·Conveyance of the audience’s voice | 第34-35页 |
| ·Voice of the poet | 第35-41页 |
| ·Depersonalization of the poet | 第36-37页 |
| ·Presence of the implied poet | 第37-38页 |
| ·Conveyance of the poet’s voice | 第38-41页 |
| Chapter Three Interplays Working in the Dramatic Monologue | 第41-59页 |
| ·Interplay between the speaker and the audience | 第41-42页 |
| ·Interplay between the poet and the speaker | 第42-46页 |
| ·The poet’s choice of speakers | 第43-45页 |
| ·Contrast between the speech language and the poetic language | 第45-46页 |
| ·Interplay between the reader and the speaker | 第46-52页 |
| ·The reader’s freedom and limitation in interpreting the speaker | 第46-49页 |
| ·The reader’s sympathy and judgment toward the speaker | 第49-52页 |
| ·Interplay between the poet and the audience | 第52-54页 |
| ·Interplay between the reader and the audience | 第54-55页 |
| ·Interplay between the poet and the reader | 第55-59页 |
| Conclusion | 第59-61页 |
| Works Cited | 第61-63页 |
