Prologue: The critic as sleuth.
The dramatic texture in Shakespeare.
'Reconciliation' in tragedy: Shakespeare and Sophocles.
Shakespeare and Jonson: characterization and tradition.
Hamlet the man.
Othello the man.
Othello and Oedipus: Corneille, Rymer and Voltaire.
Iago.
The tempest.
Phèdre.
Tartuffe, Falstaff, and the Optique du théâtre.
Art and artifice in the Iliad: or the poetical treatment of character in Homer and Shakespeare.
The tragic fallacy, so called.
Appendix to 'Hamlet the man'.