Introduction / Cleanth Brooks -- Sophocles' Oedipus / Bernard Knox -- The World of Hamlet / Maynard Mack -- Samson Agonistes / Chauncey B. Tinker -- The Tragedy of passion, Racine's Phèdre / Henri Peyre -- The Tragic world of the Karamazovs / Richard B. Sewall -- Tragedy of idealism, Henrik Ibsen / Konstantin Reichardt -- The Saint as tragic hero, Saint Joan and Murder in the Cathedral / Louis L. Martz.