Part I. Classical drama--1. The poet and the mask / T.B.L. Webster--2. The chorus in the action of Greek tragedy / A.M. Dale--3. Tragedy and Greek archaic thought / R.P. Winnington-Ingram--4. Homer and Sophocles' Ajax / Gordon Kirkwood--5. Aristophanes: originality and convention / Rosemary Harriott--6. The vulgarity of tragedy / Leo Aylen--7. Plautus, Terence and Seneca: a comparison / W. Beare--Part II. European drama--8. The Spanish tragedy and Hamlet: two exercises in English Seneca / B.L. Joseph--9. Towards a definition of form in drama / Hubert Heffner--10. Neo-classical drama and the reformation in England / Glynne Wickham--11. Racine's response to the stagecraft of Attic tragedy as seen in his annotations / W. McC. Stewart--12. The classical tradition in Spanish dramatic century / Duncan Moir--13. The naturalist and the critical view of drama / Edwin Burr Pettet--14. The fair theatres of Paris in the eighteenth century / Oscar G. Brockett