It is very hard on the historian and the dramatist that every one is not quite good or quite bad.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
But although Alfieri was not a poet, and was not even a potential novel writer, he was, in a sense, essentially a dramatist; though even here we must distinguish and diminish.
"The Countess of Albany"
Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)
In the case of any dramatist this is always difficult; and Plautus is not in form only, but in spirit, essentially dramatic.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar