"Not even Shakespeare can write well without a proper subject. It is a vain endeavour for the most skilful hand to cultivate barrenness, or to paint upon vacuity."
—Dr. Johnson - from "Johnson on Shakespeare, p.556 (quoted by Norman Rabkin, "Rabbits, Ducks, and Henry V," Shakespeare Quarterly 28 (1977): 279-96.)
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