ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -In The Tempest, Shakespeare adheres fairly closely to what scholars have called the ‘classical unities of time, place and action’.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Tempest is unique in its adherence to the three unities.

Detailed explanation-3: -Turns out, Twelfth Night was the festival at which the play would be premiered for Queen Elizabeth I, opens a new window in 1601, and thus, when good old Will couldn’t come up with a better title, that’s what it became. What is Twelfth Night? Twelfth Night is the night before January 6, the twelfth day after Christmas.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -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.