Foreword; Preface; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: Plot-Grammar: Marlowe's Tamburlaine I; Chapter Three: Semantic Considerations: Narrative Domains; Chapter Four: Marlowe -- An Exercise in Inconstancy; Chapter Five: Two Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy and Arden of Feversham; Chapter Six: King Lear; Chapter Seven: Move-Grammars and Styles of Plot; Appendix: A Few Considerations on the Formalism of Move-Grammars; Notes; References; Index
Summary
A unique methodology for plot analysis focusing on an important body of English Renaissance dramas