Includes bibliographical references and index.

Shakespeare and the inward self of the tragic hero.--Character and role from Richard III to Hamlet.--Macbeth.--On some differences between Senecan and Elizabethan tragedy.--John Marston's Sophonisba: a reconsideration.--Cult and initiates in Ford's Love's Sacrifice.--Fulke Greville's dramatic characters.--The main outline of Chapman's Byron.--Marriage and the domestic drama in Heywood and Ford.--Chapman's tragedies.--Patient madman and honest whore: the Middleton-Dekker oxymoron.--A note on "opinion" in Daniel, Greville, and Chapman.--The Widow of Ephesus: some reflections on an international comic theme.--The poetry of Sir Walter Raleigh.