...equal neglect of poetical probability. The apparition left the regions of the dead to little purpose ; the revenge which he demands is not obtained but by...would arise from the destruction of an usurper and a plunderer is abated by the untimely death of Ophelia, the young, the beautiful, the harmless, and the...

...equal neglect of poetical probability. The apparition left the regions of the dead to little purpose ; the revenge which he demands is not obtained but by...and a murderer is abated by the untimely death of Oph., the young, the beautiful, the harmless, and the pious. MRS MONTAGU (1769) (Essay on the Writings...

...equal neglect of poetical probability. The apparition left the regions of the dead to little purpose ; the revenge which he demands is not obtained but by...of Ophelia, the young, the beautiful, the harmless, and the pious. OTHELLO. ACT I. SCENE viii. (i. iii. 134 foil.) 1 spoke of most disastrous chances,...

...equal neglect of poetic probability. The apparition left the regions of the dead to little purpose ; the revenge which he demands is not obtained but by...of Ophelia, the young, the beautiful, the harmless, and the pious." Mrs. Montagu (1769). — " There is something solemn and sublime in regulating the...

...equal neglect of poetical probability. The apparition left the regions of the dead to little purpose ; the revenge which he demands is not obtained but by...required to take it, and the gratification which would ari<e from the destruction of an usurper and a plunderer is abated by the untimely death of Ophelia,...

...moral Doctor Johnson found poetic justice to be violated because the revenge demanded by the ghost 'is not obtained but by the death of him that was required to take it'.4 If Shakespeare had not killed Hamlet at the same time that he had Hamlet kill Claudius, poetic...

...equal neglect of poetical probability.1 The apparition left the regions of the dead to little purpose; the revenge which he demands is not obtained but by...of Ophelia, the young, the beautiful, the harmless, and the pious. (VIII, 311) [216] [On Othello, 1.3.140ff: Othello. Wherein of antres vast, and desarts...

...with the guilty offended contemporary notions of poetic justice and propriety. Dr Johnson wrote that the 'gratification which would arise from the destruction...of Ophelia, the young, the beautiful, the harmless and the pious'. So too the looseness of the fifth act is avoided: the seeming digressiveness of the...

...to the suffering of the innocent. Shakespeare's tragedies are painful to read. At the end of Hamlet, "the gratification which would arise from the destruction...of Ophelia, the young, the beautiful, the harmless, and the pious" (8: 1011). There is something inhuman in Shakespeare's indifference to justice. His...

...Samuel Johnson drily observed long ago: 'The apparition left the regions of the dead to little purpose; the revenge which he demands is not obtained but by the death of him that was required to take it . . .'7 The Ghost, to put it mildly, is destructively illogical. If he is not a devil in disguise,...