Three unites of Drama
Three unities of Drama
- 1 Unity of time
- 2. Unity of place
- 3. Unity of Action
For a well-known and unified plot, Aristotle recommended
the unity of Action. He felt that plot should have an ordered structure of
action or events all the component parts should be closely connected that they
should from an artistic whole, so close that the withdrawal of any one
component will dislocate the whole.
The unity of time and place Drama critics in France and Italy in the 16th
centuries, added the unities of time and place to Aristotle’s unity of action
to achieve an illusion of reality in the staging of a play it was thought
suitable to have the unity of place that the action should be limited to a
single location and the unity of time that the time of action should be limited
to the two and three hours it, takes to act the play or at the most a day or
two.
Apart from the unity of action most plays during the Elizabethan era and
later the other two unities were not followed strictly particularly by Shakespeare.
So the unities of time and place remain optional devices, left to the discretion
of the dramatist.
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