1. Novelists examine tragedy -- 2. Restoration heroics: John Dryden -- Nathaniel Lee -- William Congreve -- 3. Pathos and sentiment: Thomas Otway -- Thomas Southerne -- Nicholas Rowe -- 4. Augustan tragedy: Ambrose Philips -- Joseph Addison -- Edward Young -- Aaron Hill -- Relics -- 5. Domestic tragedy: George Lillo -- 6. Pseudo-romantic tragedy: John Home -- Robert Jephson.