The tragedies: Prometheus bound / Aeschylus -- Oedipus, the King / Sophocles -- Hippolytus / Euripides -- King Lear / W. Shakespeare -- Ghosts / H. Ibsen -- Miss Julie / A. Strindberg -- On Baile's Strand / W. B. Yeats -- Desire under the elms / E. O'Neill -- The essays: From The poetics / Aristotle -- Of tragedy / D. Hume -- The tragic / R. W. Emerson -- From Shakespeare's problem plays / E. M. W. Tillyard -- From Principles of literary criticism / I. A. Richards -- From The tragic fallacy / J. W. Krutch -- A note on the Greek theater.