Almanac: George Bernard Shaw on stage villains and happy endings
"They want to be excited, and upset, and made miserable, to have their flesh set creeping, to gloat and quake over scenes of misfortune, injustice, violence, and cruelty, with the discomfiture and punishment of somebody to make the ending 'happy.' The only sort of horror they dislike is the horror that they cannot fasten on […]
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