Table of Contents

1. Verse into drama 2. Sidney's Defence and Greville's Mustapha 3. Tragedy and history in Richard II 4. The standard: the moral and the golden 5. The standard: the metaphysical and the Shakespearean 6. Reductions: style and the character of Bolingbroke 7. Deflections: style and the character of Richard 8. Tragic doings, political order and the closed couplet 9. Astounding terms: bombast and wonder 10. Macbeth: style and form