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| Introduction | |
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| The Dramatic Mode | |
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| The Nature of Drama: What Is a Play | |
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| The Art of Dramatic Art | |
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| The Dramatic in Dramatic Art | |
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| Mode vs. Medium | |
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| The Double-Edge of Drama: Actual Performance vs. Pretense | |
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| A Play Finally Defined | |
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| Tension as the Essence of the Dramatic | |
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| Script, Play and Audience | |
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| Four Guidelines for Analysis | |
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| Dramatist and Audience | |
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| Shared Tone | |
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| Drama and the Crowd | |
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| Drama as Both Aesthetic and Social Event | |
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| Drama's Dependence Upon Polarity | |
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| The Opacity-Transparency Principle | |
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| Histrionic Sensibility | |
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| Internal Probability | |
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| The Play as a Game | |
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| Progression of Audience Involvement | |
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| The Stage Medium | |
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| The Contextual Dimension of Drama: Spatial and Temporal Isolation | |
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| The Stage as Confined Space | |
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| Presentationalism vs. Representationalism | |
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| Fixed, Fluid and Floating Stages | |
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| Concentrated vs. Comprehensive Dramaturgy | |
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| Theatre of Illusion vs. Theatre of Communion | |
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| Fundamental Sources of Tension in Space | |
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| Further Sources of Tension | |
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| Tensions Deriving from Temporal Isolation | |
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| Tensions Among Characters | |
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| The Full Array of Potential Tensions | |
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| The Temporal Dimension of Drama | |
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| Progression in Time | |
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| Segmentation of Time: Formal and Organic | |
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| Shifting Tensions: Examples of Organic Segments | |
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| Phases of Dramatic Action | |
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| Form, Style And Meaning In Drama | |
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| Form and Style in the Drama | |
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| The Difference Between Form and Style | |
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| Structural Form vs. Tonal Form | |
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| Linear, Montage, and Circular Structures | |
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| Traditional Tonal Forms | |
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| Style and the World of the Play | |
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| Personal vs. Established Styles | |
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| Steps in Analysis | |
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| Vertical vs. Horizontal Analysis | |
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| Three Fundamental Questions | |
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| The Three Readings | |
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| The Final Analysis | |
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| Analysis for Directors and Actors | |
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| Analysis for Designers | |
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| A Few Last Words | |
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| Sample Analysis. “The Harmfulness of Tobacco” | |
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| Sample Analysis. “Tartuffe” | |
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| Sample Analysis. “Conduct of Life” | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| A list of books on script analysis | |