I took the liberal view for many decades, but I believe I have changed my mind.
I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.
Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.
The correct unit of study is not the play; it is the scene.
If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience, and we're all going to be back in the breadline.
All rhetorical questions are accusations.