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| Preface (1979) | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Prologue | |
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| Plato: The Rival as Critic | |
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| Before Plato | |
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| Plato's references to the Big Three | |
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| Republic 376-403 | |
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| Republic VI-VII and X | |
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| Plato as a tragic poet | |
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| The Laws | |
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| Aristotle: The Judge Who Knows | |
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| Introduction to the Poetics | |
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| Aristotle's definition of tragedy | |
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| mimesis | |
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| spoudaios (noble) | |
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| "pity and fear"? | |
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| catharsis | |
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| The six elements - spectacle and thought | |
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| plot and its primacy | |
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| hamartia and hybrid | |
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| happy end | |
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| Toward a New Poetics | |
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| Beyond Plato and Aristotle | |
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| Imitation - and a new definition of tragedy | |
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| The work's relation to its author | |
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| The philosophical dimension | |
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| The Riddle of Oedipus | |
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| Three classical interpretations | |
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| The historical context | |
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| Man's radical insecurity | |
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| Human blindness | |
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| The curse of honesty | |
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| The inevitability of tragedy | |
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| Justice as problematic and the five themes | |
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| Oedipus versus Plato | |
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| Homer and the Birth of Tragedy | |
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| How Homer shaped Greek tragedy | |
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| The gods in the Iliad | |
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| Neither belief nor dualism | |
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| The matter of weight | |
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| Man's lot | |
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| Aeschylus and the Death of Tragedy | |
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| Nietzsche and the death of tragedy | |
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| What we know of Aeschylus | |
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| Orestes in Homer | |
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| Aeschylus' "optimism" | |
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| How he is more tragic than Homer | |
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| Character in the Iliad and Oresteia | |
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| How tragedy did and did not die | |
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| Sophocles: Poet of Heroic Despair | |
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| Nietzsche and Sophocles' "cheerfulness" | |
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| Hegel's "theory of tragedy" | |
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| Ajax | |
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| Antigone | |
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| The Women of Trachis and Electra | |
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| Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus | |
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| Sophocles' "humanism" | |
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| Euripides, Nietzsche, and Sartre | |
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| In defense of Euripides | |
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| Euripides' Electra | |
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| Was Euripides an "irrationalist"? | |
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| Nietzsche's influence on The Flies | |
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| Are Dirty Hands and The Flies tragedies? | |
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| Shakespeare and the Philosophers | |
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| Testing the philosophers | |
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| Aristotle and Shakespeare | |
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| Hegel on Shakespeare | |
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| Hume's essay "Of Tragedy" | |
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| Schopenhauer on tragedy | |
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| Nietzsche versus Schopenhauer | |
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| Max Scheler and "the tragic" | |
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| Tragedy Today | |
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| Tragic events and "the merely pathetic" | |
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| Can tragedies be written today? | |
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| The Deputy as a modern Christian tragedy | |
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| Tragedy versus history: The Deputy and Soldiers | |
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| Brecht's Galileo | |
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| The Confessions of Nat Turner | |
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| The modernity of Greek tragedy; prospects | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Chronology | |
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| A Note on Translations | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |