text:  And if you persist in your doubts and say verily the writers of those plays give no true account of their countrymen but write false things which have no existence in reality what shall we think of the countless numbers who go to see those representations and take no steps to punish the authors for libels and defamations--but contrariwise applaud and clap their hands and say "good good"--would they do this if the picture had no resemblance? But they hold up the stage as a school of morals and a copy of things that are