Read it through once

Our author is much less defective in judgment than has been generally supposed. The men who have censured him most, if they had written better plays, would have found greater faults; but he who reads Shakspeare with coolness will perceive many improprieties, which are inseparable from the genius of the author. He sometimes transgresses the rules of unity; he sometimes indulges a licence of language which modern ears blame; and he often confounds the characters of men, by uniting in one person the sentiments of different ages and professions.