 A play in which the wicked prosper, and the virtuous miscarry, may doubtless be good, because it is a just representation of the common events of human life : but since all reasonable beings naturally love justice, I cannot easily be persuaded, that the...  The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare - Page 545by William Shakespeare - 1826Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1984 - 882 pages
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 | Harold Bloom - 1986 - 296 pages
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 | Wolfgang Zach - 1986 - 580 pages
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 | D. F. Bratchell - 1990 - 166 pages
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 | Michael E. Mooney - 1990 - 260 pages
...faith of chronicles. ... A play in which the wicked prosper, and the virtuous miscarry, may doubtless be good, because it is a just representation of the...observation of justice makes a play worse; or, that if the other excellencies are equal, the audience will not always rise better pleased from the final triumph... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 298 pages
...decry poetical justice."12 A play in which the wicked prosper, and the virtuous miscarry, may doubtless be good, because it is a just representation of the...reasonable beings naturally love justice, I cannot be easily persuaded that the observation of justice makes a play worse <Sl/I99>; or, that if other... | |
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