Tragedy takes an abiding place among the great courses of continuous human activity dedicated to an inquiry into the meanings of life. Its imaginative and intellectual study of suffering and ruin must continue, however its form may alter, if the theatre is to be a social force of importance, if literature is to offer an intelligent, serious, and comprehensive view of life, if the two are to unite in something better than a trivial and selfish entertainment. Its methods may not commend themselves in an age of physical and mechanical sciences, its aim may not commend itself at a time when splendid discoveries in the physical world blur the importance of an interpretation of moral and social relations. But tragedy has survived many ages and creeds, and seems likely to survive as long as men try to understand other men, to sympathize with their troubles, and to relate these somehow to their own beliefs and ideals. In the future as in the past, when a nation or community is at a period of culminating advance, when society is most mindful of its greatness and its obligations, tragedy should find its most helpful encouragement and its greatest opportunity. INDEX The Index contains the titles of works, the names of authors, and the names of a few actors referred to in the text or footnotes. The Bibliographical Notes are not indexed. Alterations of plays are not indexed separately unless they have separate titles. References of importance are indicated by heavy-faced figures. _Abraham_, 56. _Absalon_, 39. Addison, Joseph, 250, 289-291, 302, 307. _Adriana_, 127. Æschylus, 13, 354. _Agamemnon_ (by Thomson), 299, 300. _Agamemnon and Ulysses_, 70 n. _Ajax and Ulysses_, 70 n. _Ajax Flagellifer_, 58. _Alcazar, The Battle of_, 108, 111, 115, 221. _Alcibiades_, 269. Alexander, W., 142. _Alfred the Great_, 346. Alleyn, Edward, 98. _All for Love_, 25, 260, 261, 263, 264, 277, 282, 293, 372. _All's Lost by Lust_, 218. _Almida_, 295 n. _Alphonsus of Aragon_, 107. _Alzira_, 295 n., 304. _Alzuma_, 295 n. _Ambitious Stepmother, The_, 283. _Amboyna_, 259. _Amelia_, 321. Andrews, P. M., 332. _Andromaque_, 290. _Antigone_, 195. _Antonio_, 343. _Antony and Cleopatra_, ~175-177~, 178, 184, 185, 189, 195, 261, 293, 297 n. _Antonio and Mellida_ (see _Antonio's Revenge_), 139, 146. _Antonio's Revenge_, 146, ~147-149.~ _Apology for Poetry_, 44, 72. _Appius and Virginia_, 51, 62 n., ~63~, ~64~, 66, 69, 71. Archer, Wm., 203 n., 335 n. _Archipropheta_, 39. _Arden of Feversham_, 109, 110, 113, 140; (adaptation by Lillo), 315, 316. _Argalus and Parthenia_, 234. _Ariodante and Genevra_, 70 n. Aristotle, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 16, 25, 43, 44, 165, 248. Arnold, Matthew, 361, 374. _Ars Poetica_, 34, 43. Ascham, Roger, 32, 39. Asinari, Frederigo, 56. _Atheist's Tragedy, The_, 151, ~153~, ~154~, 201, 202. _Athelwold_, 304. _Athenian Captive, The_, 346. _Auchindrane_, 349 n., 350. _Aureng Zebe_, 260, 282, 297 n. Bacon, Lord, 79.