1. A Theatre for Tragedy --
2. Titus Andronicus: Shakespeare's First Tragedy --
3. Popular Tragedies and their Audiences --
4. Richard the Third and Richard the Second: Historical Tragedies --
5. Romeo and Juliet: an Innovative Tragedy --
6. From King John to Julius Caesar: Histories and Heroes --
7. Julius Caesar: Unsettling an Audience --
8. Hamlet I: Sources and Contexts --
9. Hamlet II: Stage Action and Audience Reaction --
10. Othello: Sexuality and Difference --
11. King Lear: Part One --
12. King Lear: Part Two --
13. Macbeth: Power and the Imagination --
14. Antony and Cleopatra: a View of Greatness --
15. Coriolanus: Power and Uncertainty --
16. Timon of Athens: Beyond Tragedy.