CONTENTS -- I: CLEOPATRA -- II: HENRY V -- III: SHAKESPEARE AND THE MODERNS -- Suspense in Shakespeare and in the Moderns -- Shakespeare's Particular Achievement -- The Still Scenes -- The Effect of Extension Rather Than of Volume -- Characterization -- The Effect of Extension Also in the Characters -- The Imaginative Impression -- The Impression of Reality Rather Than the Image of the Age -- The Variety of Character and the Poet's Attitude to Life -- IV: THE OLD DRAMA AND THE NEW -- V: THE STAGE AND THE HOUSE -- VI: SPENSER -- VII: WAS PARADISE WELL LOST? -- VIII: CERTAIN FALLACIES AND IRRELEVANCIES IN THE LITERARY SCHOLARSHIP OF THE DAY -- IX: MILTON, PURITAN OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY -- The Puritan Tone -- The Devils -- The Woman -- The Poet's Seventeenth-Century Conception of the Spiritual World: Milton and Dante -- His Seventeenth-Century Romanticism -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.