Here is my presentation slides on Aristotlelian three unities of drama from paper no. 3 - Literary criticism

1. Prepared by Nishtha Makwana
Roll no. 22
Topic – Three unities of drama
Paper no. 1 – Literary Theory and Criticism
Submitted to Smt. S. B. Gardi Department of English
Bhavnagar.
Guided by Dr. Pro. Dilip Barad

2. ARISTOTLE
• A Greek Philosopher
• Has been called the
‘The Father of western philosophy’
• The founder of the Lyceum and the Peripatetic
school of philosophy and
Aristotlelian tradition

3. THREE UNITIES OF DRAMA
• Also called as - The classical unities, Aristotlelian unities or
three unities
• represent a prescriptive theory of dramatic tragedy
• Redefined in 1570 by the Italian humanist Castelvetro

4. THREE UNITIES
Unity
Of
Time
Unity
Of
Place
Unity
Of
Action

5. UNITY OF TIME
• The action in the play should
take place over no more than
24 hours
• Represented as occurring
within the course of a day

6. UNITY OF PLACE
• It requires a play to occurring in a
single place
• Should not attempt to compress
geography
• The stage should not represent
more than one place

7. UNITY OF ACTION
• It requires a play to have a single
action
• Should have one main action
• Should have minimal subplot

8. WHY THIS IS USEFUL?
• Grab the attention of audience
• Holding to these unities Give your play a momentum
• Audience can visualize easily

9. ALL MY SONS
• A tragic play by Arthur Miller in 1947
• Follows the three unities of drama
• Unity of time : The whole play
occurring in a single day , Sunday
morning to evening

10. Unity of Place
• The play occur on a
single set, the backyard
of the Joe Keller’s
home, in a small
American town
Unity of Action
• The rising, climax and
falling action of Joe
Keller

11. UNITY OF TIME IN HINDI CINEMA
WEDNESDAY
• Directed and written by Neeraj Pandey
• Set between 2pm to 6pm on a Wednesday
• Rebellion against Indian Government

12. RAINCOAT
• Based on – The gift of
Magi by O’Henry
• It tells a love of two lovers
separated by destiny,
who meet again one day

13. UNITY OF PLACE IN HOLLYWOOD
MOVIE
12 ANGRY MEN (1957)
• Takes place almost entirely
inside the juri room at New
York courthouse
• Perhaps most famous
example of a film set in one
location

14. THANK YOU