LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Only the Unity of Time should be observed
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Only the Unity of Place should be observed
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Only the Unity of Action should be observed
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All the three Unities should be observed
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Detailed explanation-1: -Johnson accepts only the unity of action, among the three unities because the unity of action ensures an effect of compactness and intensity. It helps getting to the centre of things in a play. Conventions are techniques that are accepted by common agreement. The unities are dramatic conventions.
Detailed explanation-2: -The three unities are: unity of action: a tragedy should have one principal action. unity of time: the action in a tragedy should occur over a period of no more than 24 hours. unity of place: a tragedy should exist in a single physical location.
Detailed explanation-3: -unities, in drama, the three principles derived by French classicists from Aristotle’s Poetics; they require a play to have a single action represented as occurring in a single place and within the course of a day. These principles were called, respectively, unity of action, unity of place, and unity of time.
Detailed explanation-4: -Johnson alertly observes that time and place are subservient to the mind: since the audience does not confound stage action with reality, it has no trouble with a shift in scene from Rome to Alexandria.