ABSTRACT
Evil certainly, from which he promises the world no escape; but also, and principally, the wholly good, suffering indeed, but also altogether proof against all that is brought against it. This suffering he savagely surrounds with all that evil and mischance can bring; but it never declines from its standards of complete disinterestedness. To exhibit this, Shakespeare has dealt hardly with his story; and for the author's part, he/she cannot doubt that he has dealt thus hardly with his material in order, at all costs, to communicate beyond doubt the perception of values to which he has now come. The reason, as it acted in Shakespeare’s less interested mind, saw evil still, and suffering; but he also saw a certain power in human nature to overcome the world and to make the world fade in our imaginations and leave not a rack behind.
