It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges.
Franz GrillparzerThe main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.
Franz GrillparzerThe noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women.
Franz Grillparzer