SOURCE: "The Case of John Webster," in Scrutiny, Vol. XVI, No. 1, March, 1949, pp. 38-43.
In the excerpt below, Jack maintains that there is no correspondence between the moral axioms of "degree"—the hierarchical ordering of nature and society—and the Machiavellian life presented in Webster's drama. This disassociation, the critic maintains, is the dramatist's fundamental flaw.
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