| List of Contributors | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| The Psychology of Aristotelian Tragedy | 1 |
| Aristotle on History and Poetry | 23 |
| Myth and Tragedy | 33 |
| Acting: Drama as the Mimesis of Praxis | 51 |
| Aristotle on Mimesis | 73 |
| One Action | 97 |
| Plot Imitates Action: Aesthetic Evaluation and Moral Realism in Aristotle's Poetics | 111 |
| Outside the Drama: The Limits of Tragedy in Aristotle's Poetics | 133 |
| Ethos and Dianoia Reconsidered | 155 |
| Hamartia and Virtue | 177 |
| Necessity, Chance, and "What Happens for the Most Part" in Aristotle's Poetics | 197 |
| Aristotle's Favorite Tragedies | 221 |
| Pleasure, Understanding, and Emotion in Aristotle's Poetics | 241 |
| Tragedy and Self-sufficiency: Plato and Aristotle on Fear and Pity | 261 |
| Pity and Fear in the Rhetoric and the Poetics | 291 |
| Katharsis | 315 |
| From Catharsis to the Aristotelian Mean | 341 |
| Aristotle and Iphigenia | 359 |
| Aristotle on the Pleasure of Comedy | 379 |
| The Poetics for a Practical Critic | 387 |
| Epilogue: The Poetics and its Interpreters | 409 |
| Selected Bibliography | 425 |
