LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Question
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Two equally labored actions
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One great and complete action
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use of under-plots
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No subservient actions
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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-3: -Aristotle described the drama of an earlier age in his important work On the Art of Poetry; those who followed his precepts called this disciplined structure the three “unities": unity of place, unity of time and unity of action.
Detailed explanation-4: -The three dramatic unities-Unity of time, Unity of Place, and Unity of Action-are the special gifts of the ancients.