The drama of ideas: platonic provocations in theater and philosophy

I. The Poetics of the Platonic Dialogue 1. Plato, Dramatist 2. Tragedy, Comedy, Satyr Play 3. Plato's Dramaturgy II. A Brief History of the Socrates Play 1. Socrates on Stage 2. The Death of Socrates 3. The Comic Stage Philosopher III. The Drama of Ideas 1. August Strindberg and Georg Kaiser 2. Oscar Wilde 3. George Bernard Shaw 4. Luigi Pirandello 5. Bertolt Brecht 6. Tom Stoppard IV. Dramatic Philosophy 1. Soren Kierkegaard 2. Friedrich Nietzsche 3. Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus 4. Kenneth Burke 5. Gilles Deleuze V. The New Platonists 1. Iris Murdoch 2. Martha Nussbaum 3. Alain Badiou Epilogue: Dramatic Platonism Appendix 1: Socrates Titles Appendix 2: Charting the Socrates Play Index