Here Aristotle is not quite accurately quoted. What he says of the tragedies which end unhappily is, that Euripides was right in preferring them,

'and as the strongest proof of it we find that upon the stage, and in the dramatic contests, such tragedies, if they succeed, have always the most tragic effect.'

Poetics

, Part II. § 12.

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[Footnote 2:]

Of the two plays in this list, besides

Othello

, which have not been mentioned in the preceding notes,

All for Love