poor Keats was, in his life, lays marked emphasis on some cardinal constituents of a play that lead to its organic unity and make it qualify for the insignia of a masterpiece. Out of them, the plot is considered to be inevitable and of paramount importance.
the Tempest, instead of anticipating our curiosity, as in most other first scenes, and in too many other first acts;—or they act, by contrast of diction suited to the characters, at once to heighten the effect, and yet to give a naturalness to the language and rhythm of the principal personages, either as that of Prospero and Miranda by the appropriate lowness of the style,—or as in King John, by the equally appropriate stateliness of official harangues or narratives, so that the after blank verse