| Dramatic Criticism | | Character | | Single Character-Interest or Character-Interpretation | { | Interpretation as an hypothesis |
| Canons of Interpretation |
| Complex Character-Interest | { | Character-Contrast and Duplication |
| Character-Grouping |
| Character-Colouring |
| Character-Development |
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| Passion | | Single Passion-Interest | | Incident and Situation |
| Effect | { | Irony |
| Nemesis |
| Dramatic Foreshadowing |
| Complex Passion-Interest or Passion-Tone | | Scale of Passion-Tones |
| Mixture of Tones |
| Tone-Play and Tone-Relief |
| Tone-Clash and Tone-Storm |
| Movement [Motive Force] | | Poetic Justice: or Retribution as a form of Art-beauty |
| Pathos: or [unretributive] Fate as a form of Art-beauty |
| The Supernatural | { | Destiny rationalised | { | Objectively in Irony |
| Subjectively in Infatuation |
| Supernatural Agency | { | Intensifying human action |
| Illuminating human action | { | The Oracular |
| | Supernatural Background |
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| Plot | | Single Action | | General conception of Single Actions |
| Forms of Dramatic Action |
| Complex Action | | General conception of Complex Action |
| Analysis of Complex Action into Single Actions, with Canons of Analysis |
| Economy | { | Connection | { | Contact and Linking |
| Interweaving |
| Envelopment |
| Dependence |
| Symmetry | { | Balance |
| Parallelism and Contrast |
| Movement [Motive Form] | | Simple Movement: the Line of Motion a straight line |
| | | Action-Movement or Complication and Resolution: the Line of Motion a curve |
| | | Passion-Movement or Strain and Reaction: the Line of Passion a | { | Regular Arch |
| | | Inclined Plane |
| | | Wave Line |
| | | Compound (or Relative Movement) | { | Similar Motion |
| | | Contrary Motion |
| | | Convergent Motion |
| | | Turning-points | { | Catastrophe: or Focus of Movement |
| | | Centre of Plot |
