Unities

He never consented to be bound by the "Unities" -- that conception of dramatic construction evolved out of Aristotle and Horace and elaborated in the Renaissance till, in its strictest form, it laid down that the whole scene of a play should be in one place, its whole action deal with one single series of events, and the time it represented as elapsing be no greater than the time it took in playing.

English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge G. H. Mair 1906

Light which extended from the Emanative Principle simultaneously flowed into _it_; and beheld the two _Universals_ [that is, the Unities out of which manifoldness flows; as, for example, the _idea_, within the Deity, of Humanity as a Unit, out of which the individuals were to flow], the

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850

Formerly it was the custom to censure the Poet greatly, if not to condemn him utterly, because, in his dramatic workmanship, he did not observe what are called the Minor Unities, that is, the Unities of

Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Henry Norman Hudson 1850

"side-shows" in the way of _Histoires_ -- annoys modern readers particularly, and has, as a rule, since been itself beautifully and beneficently lessened, in some cases altogether discarded, or changed -- in emancipation from the influence of the "Unities" -- to the form of second plots, not ostentatiously severed from the main one.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

The "Unities," rightly understood, are a very important feature of every drama.

Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama George Ainslie Hight

Though Salem County would hardly make any Ten Most Beautiful Counties in the Unities States list, beauty was abundant if one simply bothered to look around.

Steve Poses: Farm Stands of Salem County, NJ 2010

Though Salem County would hardly make any Ten Most Beautiful Counties in the Unities States list, beauty was abundant if one simply bothered to look around.

Steve Poses: Farm Stands of Salem County, NJ 2010

I've just been reading Agha Shahid Ali's _Ravishing Dis/Unities: Real Ghazals in English_ and experimenting with the stricter formal constraints he denotes as essential to the ghazal.

John Thompson, 1977 Lemon Hound 2009

“Leibniz's ˜Analysis of Multitude and Phenomena into Unities and Reality.™”

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Look, Brandon C. 2007

Fragments of Memory - my first break with formal rules, structure and the Unities.

wish: my personal anthology Dean Francis Alfar 2004