The history of the dramatic unities in France during the sixteenth century demands some attention.
By 1640 the battle was gained, and the unities became a part of the classic theory of the drama throughout Europe.
In other words, the more the epic attempts to restrict itself to the unitiesof place and time, the better, according to Castelvetro, it will be.
Our discussion must have made it clear how little they deserve the traditional title of Aristotelian unities, or as a recent critic with equal inaccuracy calls them, the Scaligerian unities (unites scaligeriennes).
With the introduction of the French influence, the unities became fixed requirements of the English drama, and remained so for over a century.
Castelvetro, however, was the first theorist to formulate the unity of place, and thus to give the three unities their final form.
The law of theunities does not receive such rigid application in England as is given by Sidney until the introduction of the French influence nearly three quarters of a century later.
In a similar manner Castelvetro applies the law of the unities to epic poetry.
Furthermore, as will be seen later, it is on this conception of the circumscribed platform and the physical necessities of the audience and the actors, that Castelvetro bases his theory of the unities of time and place.
By 1635 he had formulated the whole theory of the three unities and converted Cardinal Richelieu to his views.
Balzac introduced into France the fine critical sense of the Italians; Chapelain introduced their formal rules, and imposed the three unities on French tragedy.
But the first distinct formulation of the unities is to be found in Jean de la Taille's Art de Tragedie (1572).
Universals, the Unities out of which manifoldness flows, 755-u.
These unities again beget others which must, however, be less perfect, for the effect is not exactly like the cause, that which is brought forth is not quite similar to what brings it forth.
That is to say, as he calls that first unity God, he calls these numerous unities of thought that flow from it, gods, but the following moments are likewise so called.
It was objected to Rowe, that in his violation of the unities he went beyond other offenders,--not only changing the scene with the acts, but varying it within the acts.
First in celebrity and in absurdity stand the dramatic unities of place and time.
All the greatest masterpieces of the dramatic art have been composed in direct violation of the unities, and could never have been composed if the unities had not been violated.
It contains spiritual unities which are as real as we are, but which certainly do not belong to the realm of a mere nature mechanism.
These limited unities are therefore signs of that great unity which will make all the human family one by being productive of the attractions of conscience in mankind.
All these unities are imaginary and without real foundation, for no real result proceeds from them.
There is a kingdom of monads, a realm truly infinite, composed of individual unities or activities in an absolute continuity.
The extension of the idea of competition from the outer condition of organisms to the more ultimate physiological unities of organ and tissue is a philosophic gain.
To Darwin himself the struggle for existence was always between the unities represented by complete organisms whether as isolated individuals, or in family, tribal, or national groups.
And upon the laws which regulate those unities named States, Christ nowhere breathes a word.
And what is its place in the life-history of a State considered as an entity, an organic unity, distinct from the unities which compose it?
The better side of mysticism is an æsthetic interest in large unities and cosmic laws.
This gift of revolutionary thinking allowed new aspects, hints of wider laws, premonitions of unthought of fundamental unities to spring constantly into view.
They lead one to understand that the transactional unities have only a fictitious value, that they serve solely to measure the transactional value of things, that their system is thus dependant on the existence of these things.
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These Unities of Action, Time, and Place, ought very carefully to be observ'd.
She had a quiet pain, in the infrequent moments when she allowed herself the full realization of her love for Kendal, in the knowledge that she, of her own motion, had disturbed its unities and its ascendancies.
Kendal never added anything to the unities of their conversation when he joined these two; he seemed rather to break up what they had to say to each other and attract it to himself.
Shakspeare disregards the unities in form; but his burning imagination restores their operations in substance.
The latter enables us to form an intimate acquaintance with characters, with which we could not possibly become familiar during the few hours to which the unities restrict the poet.
As long as the unities of time and place are adhered to, the poet has no resource but in the forces of character, the pathos of incident, the beauty of language.
The popular opera of the "Black Domino," to which the charming singing and acting of Madame Thillon have recently given such celebrity at the Haymarket, may be considered in this respect as a model of the unities taken in a reasonable sense.
When it is commonly said that Shakspeare sets the unities at defiance, and assumed that his success has been owing to his disregarding them, the fact is not correctly stated, and the inference is not logically drawn.
It is a mistake to say that the unitiesare always disregarded by the great English tragedian.
The unities are nearly as closely observed in both as in any drama of Sophocles.
The dramas themselves, built in strict accordance with the three unities of classic taste, may seem strangely stiff and unemotional to us, but they carried an immense appeal to the Italian of the last century.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
