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'.