The conventional treatment of those subjects, which makes all the operas seem exactly alike, was the result of a certain literary reform which had tended to standardise opera libretti under the influence of Racine, and it was really a movement towards dignity and dramatic unity after the monstrous confusion of the earlier Venetian operas.
"Handel"
Edward J. Dent
We standardise our children.
"Leaves in the Wind"
A. G. Gardiner