This paper, by making a comparison between Zaju of Yuan dynasty and Western drama, studies the two techniques of setting suspense in Zaju——foretelling and delay, thereby to explore the common law in the field of stage narration in Chinese and Western drama.

This article analyses Joseph through the three aspects of Hamlet: loneliness, aphasia and delay.

This paper starts with an analysis of Hamlet’s images and continues to discuss the reason for his delay in taking revenge from the angles of sociology, philosophy of life ontology and social morality.

This paper aims to explore the causes of Hamlet’s procrastination in the light of both Shakespeare’s living environment and his play in the original.

And the focus of these comments lies in the understanding of Hamlet s procrastination.

The cause inquiry of Hamlet s procrastination has been from the social, political, cultural, or psychological angles, whereas from and artistic point of view his procrastination plays an important role in creating the general effect, plot, structure, and personality, thus it is a critical aesthetic element strongly dramatic.

There is a common misunderstanding in the history of interpreting the hesitation of Hamlet,which takes the revenge as a thing concerning Hamlet simply and ignores the tactics of Claudius.

Hamlet s hesitation in revenge is a mystery and there have been various opinions on it for centuries.

Tie Ning s later novels are characterized by the exposition of people s desire and the employment of delayed narration.

It became a new feature of the 20th century literature and art and acquired its artistic charm with various estrangement techniques of making difficult poetry, deformation of estrangement, and structural procrastination, thus becoming the creator of .

Mischel is the leading figure in the study of delay of gratification.