(2) The external beauty achieved by technical methods proper to the particular kind of
art. Thus, in dramatic art, the technical
method will be a true individuality of language,
corresponding to the characters, a natural, and
at the same time touching plot, a correct scenic
rendering of the demonstration and development of emotion, and the feeling of measure
in all that is represented.
(3) Sincerity, i.e., that the author should himself keenly feel what he expresses. Without this condition there can be no work of art, as the essence of art consists in the contemplation of the work of art being infected with the author's feeling. If the author does not actually feel what he expresses, then the recipient can not become infected with the feeling of the author, does not experience any feeling, and the production can no longer be classified as a work of art.
The subject of Shakespeare's pieces, as is seen from the demonstrations of his greatest admirers, is the lowest, most vulgar view of life, which regards the external elevation of the lords of the world as a genuine distinction, despises the crowd, i.e., the working classes—
