• Introduction
• Introduction

• Controversy Between the Ancients and Moderns
• Excerpt from Essay Of Dramatic Poesy (1668)

• Crites Begins to Speak on Behalf of the Ancients

• The Ancients and the Unities

• Superior Writing of the Ancients

• How the Moderns Excell the Ancients

• Plots of the Ancients

• Ancient Playwrights

• Wit of the Ancients

• French Scrupulousness in Regard to the Unities

• French Plots

• French Plots Continued

• Which Actions To Include

• Excellencies of the French Drama

• French and English Plots Compared

• French and English Plots Compared; Tragi-Comedy

• French and English Drama Compared

• Whether the Whole Drama Should Depend on the Protagonist

• Whether to Hide Action that Causes Tumult

• French and English Drama Compared (the Unities)

• French and English Drama Compared; Jonson and Shakespeare

• Beaumont, Fletcher, Jonson, Shakespeare

• Examination of Jonson's The Silent Woman

• Examination of Jonson's The Silent Woman

• Glossary
• Glossary
• Act [of a play]
• Alexandrine Couplets
• Breeches Roles
• Catharsis
• Choral Lyric
• Chorus
• Comedy
• Comedy of Manners
• Cross-Dressing
• Dramaturgy
• Epic Drama
• Epic Poetry
• Episodic Plot
• Farce
• History Play
• Iambic Dialogue
• Irony
• Mask
• Masques
• Melodrama
• Neoclassical Dramaturgy
• Neoclassicism
• New Comedy
• Old Comedy
• Pantomime
• Pastoral Drama
• Plot
• Protagonist
• Restoration Comedy
• Role-Playing
• Romance
• Satire
• Satyr Play
• Tragedy
• Tragic Tetralogy
• Tragi-Comedy
• Unities [of action, time and place]

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