LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Question
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the action should happen in the palace
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All the action should be confined to a particular place
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Actions happening in one place should be dramatised
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -• The unity of place: a play should cover a single. physical space and should not attempt to compress geography, nor should the stage represent more than one place. • The unity of time: the action in a play should take place over no more than 24 hours.
Detailed explanation-2: -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: -The two unities most relevant to this play include the unity of action, which says a play should take place in a single geographical location, and the unity of time, which says the action of a play should span no more that 24 hours.