“There are very few good tragedies; some are merely idylls in dialogue form, however well written and well rhymed; others are political tracts that send us to sleep, or pomposities that merely repel us; and others still are the ravings of enthusiasts, barbarously written, with broken dialogue and lengthy apostrophes to the gods (because the author does not know how to speak to men).”
- Voltaire, Candide
