"Do yo u want to talk about the dramatic unities again?"

The dramatic unities could not be more complete.

He insisted on the observance of the dramatic unities.

He also writes without inhibitions relating to dramatic unities.

Racine observes the dramatic unities more closely than the Greek tragedians had done.

Yet in certain cases, Ms. Breckenridge observes the dramatic unities by consciously distorting historical fact.

The work is known mostly for its preface, in which the author affirms the dramatic unities as they were then understood (lieu, temps, action).

The dramatic unities of time and place were abolished, tragic and comic elements appeared together and metrical freedom was won.

After The Mirror, he announced that he would focus his work on exploring the dramatic unities proposed by Aristotle: a concentrated action, happening in one place, within the span of a single day.

The credit of introducing the law of the dramatic unities into French literature has been claimed for many writers, and especially for the Abbé d'Aubignac, whose Pratique du théâtre appeared in 1657.

Shakespeare was considered a genius among German playwrights, and was idolized for his "shattering of the dramatic unities of time, place and action; and his sharply individualized, emotionally complex characters" (Waterhouse v).

But the show does not observe any dramatic unities: one moment it plays at being a realistic comedy about kids (for adults), then it widens out to include piracy in east Africa or to launch an attack on bikers.

Then one may, after an arriere supper, drop into Will's or Slaughter's and find Old John, with Tickell and Congreve and the rest of them, hard at work on the dramatic unities, or poetical justice, or some such matter.

The doctrine of the dramatic unities had not the saving virtues which he ascribed to it, and, though he succeeded in banishing the older dramatists from the boards, he and his school failed to produce a single piece of more than mediocre merit.

According to Lodge, the play "originated in the experience of teaching such a course myself- not because its plot bears any resemblance to what happened on that course, but because it struck me that the bare situation possessed the classic dramatic unities of time, place and action.