ABSTRACT
AT this point it seemed useful, before attempting to gather the threads of this discussion into some pattern, to consider the possibilities of checking our speculations by the practical response of some selected tragic auditors. A number of men, chosen from among different age groups and of widely-differing backgrounds, were invited to set down their response to tragedy; either generally, as to the form, or in relation to a specific work either seen or read. Not all were ‘professional’ students of literature, nor had they always a background of reading in tragic theory.
