Introduction by Cleanth Brooks
Sophocles' Oedipus by Bernard Knox
The world of Hamlet by Maynard Mack
Samson agonistes by Chauncey B. Tinker
The tragedy of passion. Racine's Phedre by Henri Peyre
The tragic world of the Karamazovs by Richard B. Sewall
Tragedy of idealism. Henrik Ibsen by Konstantin Reichardt
The saint as tragic hero. Saint Joan and murder in the cathedral by Louis L. Martz.