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The articles in this collection are reprinted from earlier publications, mainly journals published 1963-1999; they were chosen as examples of critical assessments from a Hegelian point of view, especially with regard to the arts, drama in particular. The topics presented are diverse, including essays on Shakespeare, Pirandello, Albee, and Arthur Miller and a critical introduction to Hegel's . The essays are annotated but there is no index. Henry Paolucci (d. 1999) was emeritus in government and politics at St. John's U., New York. Anne Paolucci is the founder of the . Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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• Preface(p. 5)
• Publisher's Note(p. 7)
• Part 1 Hegel's Influence and Reputation; the Aesthetics(p. 9)
• Chapter 1 Dialectical Inversions: Hegel's Influence and Reputation(p. 11)
• Chapter 2 Introduction to Hegel's Aesthetics(p. 28)
• Aristotle and Hegel(p. 28)
• Italian Humanism, the German Reformation, and the "Moderns"(p. 28)
• The Rationalist Rejection of History and the Romantic Rejection of that Rejection(p. 30)
• Hegel's Comprehensive Aesthetic and Theory of Literature(p. 33)
• Hegel's Theory of Tragedy(p. 43)
• Part 2 Comedy, Social Drama, Verse Drama(p. 51)
• Chapter 3 Hegel's Theory of Comedy(p. 53)
• The Place of Comedy in the Hegelian System(p. 55)
• Aesthetic Irony and the Comical(p. 59)
• The Personae of Ancient and Modern Comedy(p. 61)
• Tragedy, Comedy, and the "End" of Art(p. 68)
• Chapter 4 Social Drama as Heir of Tragedy and Comedy; Theater of the Absurd and the Break with the Past(p. 74)
• Chapter 5 Verse Drama: The Burden of the Shakespearean Model, with Special Emphasis on the 'Beckets' of Tennyson and T. S. Eliot(p. 83)
• Part 3 Shakespeare(p. 97)
• Chapter 6 Bradley and Hegel on Shakespeare(p. 99)
• Chapter 7 Shakespeare Revisited: Hegel, A. C. Bradley, T. S. Eliot(p. 116)
• Chapter 8 Macbeth and Oedipus Rex: A Study in Paradox(p. 143)
• Chapter 9 Mirrored Usurpation: Hamlet's Tragic Burden(p. 165)
• Chapter 10 Marx, Money, and Shakespeare: The Hegelian Core in Marxist Shakespeare Criticism(p. 179)
• Socialist-Realism and Shakespearean Humanism(p. 179)
• The Marxist "Locus Classicus": Timon's Gold(p. 184)
• From Misanthropy Back to Hegel(p. 193)
• Part 4 Drama's Redemption of the Absurd(p. 201)
• Chapter 11 From the Titan of Aeschylus to Albee's Tiny Alice(p. 203)
• Chapter 12 Avant-garde Anticipation of the Absurd(p. 223)
• Chapter 13 Shakespeare and the Genius of the Absurd(p. 232)
• Part 5 "Theater of the Absurd"(p. 247)
• Chapter 14 Shakespeare's Hamlet and Pirandello's Enrico IV(p. 249)
• Chapter 15 Comedy and Paradox in Pirandello's Plays(p. 258)
• Chapter 16 Pirandello and the Waiting Stage of the Absurd (with Some Observations on a New 'Critical Language')(p. 280)
• Chapter 17 Albee and the Restructuring of the Modern Stage(p. 293)
• Hamlet and the "Artistic Failure" of the Absurd(p. 294)
• Albee's Kaleidoscopic Technique(p. 301)
• Albee's "New Realism": A Delicate Balance(p. 306)
• Chapter 18 Albee on the Precipitous Heights (Two Arms Are Not Enough!)(p. 314)
• Part 6 Sophocles, Dante, Arthur Miller(p. 337)
• Chapter 19 The Oracles are Dumb or Cheat: A Study of the Meaning of Oedipus Rex(p. 339)
• Chapter 20 Art and Nature in Dante's Purgatorio(p. 350)
• Chapter 21 Arthur Miller;s Death of a Salesman: The Tragic Hero Redefined(p. 366)
• About the Authors(p. 385)