摘要：As one masterpiece by Shakespeare,king lear has been aroused a hot argument about its miserable ending since it come out to *** paper will take this controversial ending as the starting point,focus on the seemingly unfair ending of lear and Cordelia’s tragic death and making a thorough textual study on its death *** a systematic and comprehensive analysis of the ending,I attempt to reveal the deep-seated significance behind the characters’forlorn *** death of lear and Cordelia are not the absence of“poetic justice”,but an elaborate arrangement by *** the death of a series of characters,the playwright expresses his own understanding on human *** clearly makes his choice and assents the kindness of human nature.

摘要：Jingju actor and director Wu Hsing-kuo＇s （吴兴国） lear Is Here （2001） is a 90-minute solo performance adapted from Shakespeare＇s king lear and performed injingju style. In this performance, he alternately performs 10 male and female characters including himself injingju role types ofsheng （male）, dan （female）,jing （painted face）, mo, and chou （clown） in search 0f dual identities. This paper will investigate Wu＇s performance in lear Is Here from three directions： First, how Wu subtly combines Shakespearean dramatic tension and psychological complex, his versatilejingju performing styles, and Brechtian alienation effect in developing his unique artistic flair？ What are at stake of such an eclectic performance？ Second, in the rooting and re-routing of both Shakespearean plays andjingju acting style where Wu Hsing-kuo meets king lear, how Wu articulates the meticulous details of both source culture and target culture while at once extracting them out of context to interweave and re-articulate them into an eclectic intercultural theater？ Third, investigating the cultural exchange, bicroleurs, audience reception, and production mode of the work, the author will try to do away with the ＂authenticity＂ or ＂representativeness＂ of either the East or the West, but explore the possibilities of the hybrid theater in search of alternative aesthetic and emerging performance genre

摘要：As one of Shakespeare’s most representative works,king lear has been paid much attention to and studied by scholars at home and abroad from different perspectives since its *** for me,I’d like to study on the imagery of Heath in king lear from the perspective of Archetypal Criticism to explore and make an analysis of the four multinational-layered and profound symbolic *** will be of great benefit to promote our study and understanding of this drama from this specific perspective,thus bringing us much enlightenment and benefits.

摘要：As one of Shakespeare＇s four great tragedies, king lear stands as a classic masterpiece firmly in world literary history. The lear story goes through many retellings, among which Jane Smiley＇s A Thousand Acres proves to be a successful one. Though exhibited from different perspectives, the two stories have something in common the ironies arising from father-daughter conflicts. In the way of an intertextual comparison, the paper analyzes the ironies from father-daughter conflicts with an aim of digging out deep meaning from behind in a new angle. It f＇mds out that the ironies shared by the two works help to increase the tragic atmosphere and reveal a lot of truths underneath the lines.