12. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lectures on Shakespeare, Collected Works 5, Lectures 1808-1819 on Literature II, ed. R.A. Foakes (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987) 315. Coleridge's assessment of Roderigo is also worth noting, since it applies equally to John Self: "the want of character and the power of the passions, like the wind loudest in empty houses, forms his character" (313).
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